The monks carefully cut and paste the sheets into enormous books.

George and Chuck are initially sceptical of the project's validity but agree to help the monks.įor weeks, the Mark V computer has been generating sheets filled with gibberish as it rearranges letters in all their possible combinations. The computer can churn out lists of names much faster than the monks could do it by hand. The monks seek the help of two engineers, George and Chuck, to speed up the project by using an automatic sequence computer, the Mark V. They have been systematically permuting letters to list all possible names.

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