Monkey Text

A monkey text is a text known not to have the hypothesized Torah code effect. Hence a monkey text is one authored by humans or generated by taking a natural language text and randomizing it in some way such as by randomly permuting letters, words, or verses.

In order to determine the probability that a Torah code table would happen by chance, a constructive meaning to probability must be defined. This is done by defining a control population of monkey texts. There are a variety of ways of defining such a monkey text population.

Using a corpus of human authored natural language texts
Defining a corpus by means of a randomizing method such as
- Randomly permuting the letters of the text
- Randomly permuting the letters of the text, book by book
- Randomly permuting the letters of the text chapter by chapter
- Randomly permuting the letters of the text verse by verse
- Randomly permuting the letters of the text word by words
- Randomly permuting the words of the text
- Randomly permuting the words of the text, book by book
- Randomly permuting the words of the text chapter by chapter
- Randomly permuting the words of the text verse by verse
Defining a virtual corpus by randomizing the ELSs of the text
- Randomly permuting the positions of the ELSs of the text
- Randomly permuting the positions and skips of the ELSs of the text
- Randomly permuting the skips of the ELSs of the text

Each different definition for constructing a population of monkey texts will result in a different probability that a table of given compactness or better would occur by chance. The meaning of the probability with respect to a monkey text population is simply the fraction of the texts of the monkey text population whose best table having one ELS of each of the given key words is as good as or better compactness than the compactness value resulting from the Torah text.

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