What is randomness?

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golotto — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 05:28:10 GMT

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JKING — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:49:25 GMT

I'm not sure where I read it but...Randomness is like raindrops falling on a sidewalk, your not sure where the next drop is going to fall, but you know the whole sidewalk will be ALL wet very soon.It sort of plays it both ways, that you can't guess a random dvent, but on the average you know what it's going to do. *S

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DoctorEw220 — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 03:31:44 GMT

that brings a good question. what is random? is there a randomness? i mean you don't know what to expect for the future. is anything perfectly random? people can be predictable. for example, i had a feeling that my ex-girlfriend would cheat on me, and she wound up confessing to it. people can predict that now that the doctor cleared me to, i will be playing Dance Dance Revolution this weekend. there really is no such thing as randomness because anything can be predictedm just not by the... [ More ]

What is randomness?

Bertil — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:35:10 GMT

The New Scientist magazine has a series of articles about randomness in its Sept- Oct. issue. One article deals with the UK lottto game 1/49. Bertil