Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Jochem Maas | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:13:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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tedd wrote:
> At 5:15 PM -0500 12/10/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
>> Just for fun, I decided to write out an algorithm to randomize
>> with a never-known seed that would update constantly, with no human or
>> external script intervention required to initiate or maintain it.
>
>
> My guess is that if there was a time that this <whatever> did not exist,
> but now does exist, then it cannot be random. It may be random for a
> billion years, or more, but it would eventually repeat.
>
> However, it something started at the instant of the big-bang, then its
> repeat cycle would be at least equal-to, or greater-than, known time and
> thus random.
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
tedd your as sick as Rob :-)