Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | tedd | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:16:17 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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At 10:17 AM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simplyJust 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. Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comtruncated 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.