Posted on 05/26/2016 10:08:32 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I love some of the reviews of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Book-Random-Numbers/dp/1452818363
Oops, this one has even MORE comments:
http://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=416-PAZ370L&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL480_SR372%2C480_&refRID=0HD27JB4XRBZEPGDX7T8
LOL! So you got a “C” in the class?
My Alien Revelation science fiction saga supposes that nothing created by non-living processes can ever be truly random. Sure, they can be hard to predict, but any non-living mechanism, studied closely enough and measured with enough precision, can be predicted.
Life, on the other hand, exhibits true randomness at every turn. Take 12 goats and let them loose in a fenced in field of high grass. No amount of study or measurement will ever be able to predict exactly what these goats will do. Their actions are completely random at some basic level.
But the results of their actions can easily be predicted - a nicely cleaned up field!
When I was in school, we literally had RANDOM NUMBER TABLES, which were in a book.
Come to think of it...I guess if we used them more than once, their randomness quickly faded.
Umm..
That's not a random number.
It's an imaginary number..
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