RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:29:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 14:22 -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote:
> [snip]
> 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 :)
> [/snip]
>
> Without order there cannot be randomness.
But is the reverse true?
Cheers,
Rob.
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