RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Jay Blanchard | Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2007 20:22:12 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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Can you say for certain nature is truly random? Just because the seed
may have occurred 13.7 billion years ago and we don't know what that
initial state was and we couldn't possibly calculate all the
interactions since, doesn't mean that everything since hasn't been
happening in accordance with some universal formula and in absence of
randomness. We know that there appear to be certain laws in physics,
would they not have applied to that initial state in a non random
manner? It may just be that due to the hugantic sample space from which
to draw arbitrary values that we think things are random.
Food for thought :)
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Without order there cannot be randomness.