Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But every few years someone proves that these sequences are not really random, even though they are so close to random that it doesn't matter for anything other than high-level physics.
Which leads me to yet another mathy-ignorant question:
If even computers can't really create strings of random numbers, is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers? One presumes that people just rattling off digits is even less reliably random than a computer doing it.
is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers?
You mean like, Pi?
One presumes that people just rattling off digits is even less reliably random than a computer doing it.
"1, 2, 3, 4... DAMMIT!"
Mmm....Pi.....
is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers?
Yip. The standard method used to be measuring radioactive decay; dunno what it is nowadays.
is it even possible to create long strings of truly random numbers?
I read a short story once where a guy, trying to talk to God, hooked up a letter-generating computer program to the random decay of Plutonium atoms. After a while, God called him up and told him to lay off with the pressure because it was annoying.
Eh, he's an old man. Giving him a boost up is the polite thing to do.
Okay, now I'm wondering if this comment makes DX more hell-bound, or less....
DX, you're Catholic, right?
You mean like, Pi?
Like the book, it's a fixed set, and becomes semi-unrandom.
After a while, God called him up and told him to lay off with the pressure because it was annoying.
BWAHAHAHA!
you're sposed to flip to a random page
But then you're doing the work!