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To: tortoise
Algorithmic information theory is deeply counter-intuitive and 90% of pro-ID arguments exploit this fact, apparently to great effect.

Personally, I use random (a function in Excel) to get me a value between 0 and 1. Using a "seed" gets me other values that I need.

My big argument that random events do not produce music still stands

As pointed out before, I prgram the random events. If I chose to downpage, select a ticket, downpage again, select a ticket, that is not really reandom

157 posted on 01/03/2006 3:39:45 PM PST by ThomasNast (2350)
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To: ThomasNast
My big argument that random events do not produce music still stands

Not familiar with Mozart's minuet dice game? John Cage's "chance music"?

160 posted on 01/03/2006 3:46:17 PM PST by Senator Bedfellow
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