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To: Southack
Welcome to Intelligent Design.

Your hand didn't change itself; you changed it.

Not very intelligently. Every possible change occured. Using this strategy, there is no chance of failing to find the answer.

654 posted on 07/10/2006 12:14:52 PM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: js1138
"Not very intelligently. Every possible change occured. Using this strategy, there is no chance of failing to find the answer."

That's generally the case when you inject intelligence, such as insuring that only 1 card is discarded/replaced...knowing that your desired result will be found after enough single events.

But that does **NOT** mean that "Every possible change occured."

For your poker hand of 5 cards, each with one of 4 different suits, you would have 5^4 possible changes/combinations. Intelligently, you could limit such changes to 5*3 (or less - perhaps down to 4), but an unthinking, unbiased, random system would have no such option.

655 posted on 07/10/2006 12:27:44 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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