ping!
Cool math made simple. Now if we can dump Common Core
wat u say?
Fascinating!
Thanks for info!!!!
So I should toss my book on random numbers?
This is great! Back when I dabbled in this (assembly language coding my own RAN generator), I came up with this sort of issue. I actually had something in mind like what they have done here, using two "weakly" random numbers. Whats amazing is that if you looked at "weakly" random numbers, to the human eye/experience, they look completely random, but if you map them into space you can start to see definite patterns emerging. So I started to think of combining two or more such randoms to create a more randomer number :)
At this point I was way in over my head, and dropped it. Thats a direction I could look at, but never go to....
If you need random number just copy the number on the unemployment reports.
But it can be hacked by a 12 year old in Tacoma, WA using a lap top computer. He will sell his hacking program for $25.00 and some Oreo cookies.
This should expedite the budgeting process in Congress.
If you can compute it, it’s not random.
If the results are reproducible, the numbers are not random.
A computer is the most deterministic thing there is. Someone please explain to me how a computer can compute true random numbers?
Using a TIME function doesn’t count. That is computed too, but the actual moment when you use the TIME function is unpredictable, giving the illusion of randomness.
This ‘random’ problem demonstrates how much of our physical world is essentially sequential or constant. Try using seeds of measurable factors like air pressure, DJI and ambient dB at the local ER and they will still render roughly sequential random numbers.
I wrote a random number generator in C class. It always returned 3.
I love some of the reviews of this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Small-Book-Random-Numbers/dp/1452818363
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.