At 3:35 PM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
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.
Yeah, but we haven't proven order yet either. :-)
Cheers,
tedd
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