Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution

From: 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 :-)

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