Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution

On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:01 -0500, Jason Pruim wrote: > On Dec 14, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Jochem Maas wrote: > > > tedd wrote: > >> At 11:59 PM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 16:21 -0500, tedd wrote: > >>> > >>>> Yeah, but we haven't proven order yet either. :-) > >>> > >>> Order exists all around us. > >> > >> Maybe around you, but I have a wife, two daughters, and four female > >> grandchildren. > > > > that would suggest you live in a world devoid of reason ... which is > > not > > the same as order :-P but it's reasonable to assume that it's a > > fairly chaotic place :-) > > I don't know much about women... Only married to one, but My Son > certainly throws me into chaos at times (Daddy, what does this button > do? *Computer shuts off because he found the power strip...) My son is 4 now, he knows what the button does... and for a while he would turn it off knowing full well what would happen. One day he was playing Gamecube and I said, "hey what does this button do?". He hasn't turned off the computer in a while :) > > while we're on the subject of order, I'll have a no. 12, a no. 45 > > and 2 no.97's please > > > > omg this is so off topic it's liable to come full circle - actually > > circles seem pretty > > damned orderly ... which just leaves the question as to whether > > circles exist or that > > we merely projection them onto reality, which is great because that > > question cannot > > be objectively answered unless your the "one true god"(tm) - who > > probably doesn't give a hoot > > anyway. > > Everything is in place because the Master Machine put it there in what > seems a random order but when we die and the aliens take us back to > the mother ship we will realize that nothing was ever random... except > for the fact that we exist... Personally I think we were a genetic > mistake by the aliens who were trying to perfect cow cloning and > oops... we created humans :P > > *Puts on his tinfoil hat and sits in the corner with his light saber > (8 foot fluorescent light bulb filled with gasoline and lit on fire to > get the cool effects) and waits for the aliens return... I'm sorry, but your AI is off. There's no mothership or universe per se for that matter. It's all a grand simulation. The master coders are watching you! And tinfoil won't help. Cheers, Rob. -- ........................................................... SwarmBuy.com - http://www.swarmbuy.com Leveraging the buying power of the masses! ...........................................................