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The Adventures of Percival: A Phylogenetic Tale

By Nicolas de Crécy, Dominique Lestel (Text by), Riviere Daniele (Editor), Alain Richert (Text by), Pierre Senges
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By Nicolas de Crécy, Dominique Lestel (Text by), Riviere Daniele (Editor), Alain Richert (Text by), Pierre Senges
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The first installment in Dis Voir's new "illustrated fairy tales for adults," The Adventures of Percival is based on the classic probability proposition that a chimpanzee randomly typing will eventually type a Shakespeare sonnet. Here, McIntosh, a gardener-mathematician (and spiritual cousin of Baron Münchhausen), decides to take the fable seriously, and with the assistance of a typewriter and a chimpanzee called Percival, undertakes to enact the experiment. Naturally things don't go as pla...

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