Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:35:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:16 -0500, tedd wrote:
> At 10:17 AM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> > > In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simply
> >> truncated 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.
>
> Just 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.
Seemingly random lists... We haven't proven random yet ;)
Cheers,
Rob.
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