On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:16 -0500, tedd wrote: > At 10:17 AM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > > > In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simply > >> truncated to the tens digit -- that was pretty random. > > > >Random seeming you mean. As mentioned in the original post, just because > >the timeline and sample space is immense doesn't make it random, it just > >makes it difficult to guess. In fact, someone already mentioned the case > >of computers in casinos that can predict the landing spot of a roulette > >ball. > > Just because someone said it, doesn't mean it's true. > > I remember in the old days where they used roulette wheels to > generate random lists. Seemingly random lists... We haven't proven random yet ;) Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ........................................................... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
