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MooBaloo

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Message 19231 - Posted: 6 Aug 2008, 4:51:58 UTC

I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I figured I'd give it a shot.

I am interested in creating a project to test the infinite monkey theorem. I figure BOINC would be a perfect place to test this out, as it has many computers that could be used in place of real monkeys. So I started to think about this, and I have run into a problem; validation. Since the "monkeys", or computers, would be thoretically churning out random characters, there would be no obvious way of validating the results; someone might just paste a work of Shakespeare to tamper with the results. I would like to know if anyone would have any idea on how to resolve this issue.
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Nicolas

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Message 19336 - Posted: 8 Aug 2008, 14:02:55 UTC - in response to Message 19231.  

http://warp.povusers.org/grrr/monkeys.html
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Eric Myers
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Message 19429 - Posted: 11 Aug 2008, 12:10:10 UTC

Primates@Home

Primates@Home Shakespeare project: reCAPTCHA for bananas
-- Eric Myers

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." -- William Butler Yeats
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