Version 3.0 of my game OMMs now allows the application itself to find
English words from the "words" typed by a monkey. These words come
from Webster's 2nd International dictionary. My thanks to Jürg Raess
for showing how to include and use the Unix text file "words" from the
dictionary. I developed a binary search method to find the English
words in the "words" typed by a monkey. The words are found almost
instantaneously.
OMMs stands for "One Million Monkeys". That's from "One million
monkeys typing on one million typewriters...".
With "no" to spaces the typewriters have 1000 keys, 73 with 'a', 9
with 'b', ... , 19 with 'y', and 1 with 'z'. These are average
frequencies for English text. There are no punctuation keys.
With "yes" to spaces the 1000 keys are adjusted to allow spaces
between words, with an average of about five letters per word.You set
the number of characters to be typed in the "Chars. typed" box. Choose
"yes" or "no" for spaces. Select the monkey type in the Popup menu,
and, if necessary, enter a numerical value for x. Then click on the
"Monkey Types" button, and, perhaps after some noticeable time, you
will see the characters typed by the monkey.
Freeware.
Download page:
http://homepage.mac.com/delaneyrm/OMMs.html
for Mac (Universal), Windows, and Linux.
Have fun!
Bob
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