"weighting" a computer-typewiter to account for an author's most commonly used letters, the famous monkey problem can be applied to almost any field of literature. The examples above are based on Hamlet, A Farewell to Arms, and Roger Bacon's Secreturn Secretorurn.
Better-educated fourth-order computers yielded 90 percent words in their letter groups, but Hamlet's soliloquy remained elusive. Unfortu- nately, the biggest computers today are not capable of simulating cor- relations of a...