Zachriel
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| Quote | dgosse: To spell the word “evolution,” obtaining the nine letters in order, each having a 1/26 probability, you have a probability of 1 in 5,429,503,678,976. This, as you will realize, comes from multiplying 26 by itself, using the figure 9 times. If every five seconds day and night a person drew out one letter, he could expect to succeed in spelling the word “evolution” about once in 800,000 years!
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But if you have a population of words that evolve, starting with the single-letter word "O", selecting for perfect spelling, then some nine-letter word or other will evolve in a tiny fraction of the time.
Beware a war of words
Ere you err.
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