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To: Doctor Stochastic
No, this is false.

No, in spite of your convoluted rhetoric to try to turn his words backwards, Frumious is correct. A repeatable experiment is by definition not random, else the results would not repeat. So yes, no event which can be repeated experimentally is random.

1,375 posted on 06/19/2002 9:41:50 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
A repeatable experiment is by definition not random, else the results would not repeat. So yes, no event which can be repeated experimentally is random.

Just because the experiment may be replicated, the results may still be random. Many experiments on the sub-atomic level are like this. Young's two slit experiment is a good example.

1,398 posted on 06/20/2002 7:27:27 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic
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