Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | tedd | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:21:23 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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At 3:35 PM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:16 -0500, tedd wrote:Yeah, but we haven't proven order yet either. :-) Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.comAt 10:17 AM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote: In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simplyRandom 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.truncated to the tens digit -- that was pretty random.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.