To: Doctor Stochastic
Newer electronic machines are designed to mimic random processes. (And some do so badly.) If such are designed to mimic a process, then it must be with a purpose in view. What would that purpose be?
325 posted on
06/07/2003 3:57:55 PM PDT by
betty boop
(When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent. -- Jacques Barzun)
To: betty boop
What would that purpose be? To mimic a random process, of course.
334 posted on
06/07/2003 4:52:31 PM PDT by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: betty boop
If such are designed to mimic a process, then it must be with a purpose in view. What would that purpose be? The purpose is to have the machines not be predictible and therefore beatable via analysis of past patterns - that tends to make the casino go broke.
336 posted on
06/07/2003 5:47:47 PM PDT by
balrog666
(When in doubt, tell the truth. - Mark Twain)
To: betty boop
If such are designed to mimic a process, then it must be with a purpose in view. What would that purpose be?To con the mark into believing that because a chance is random, he has a chance of taking home more than he spends. Now, of course, even if we pretended that the spins of the wheels can be perfectly random, the house simply adjusts the payouts so that at the end of the day more coins were fed into the machine than came out of it. And it's all perfectly legit, which is why only stupid peole like Bill Bennett play slot machines.
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