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Subject: <OFF> Random? was Re: Dice
From: Skinner Paul <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:10:37 -0400

my 2 bits on randomness.

A well worded definition... A function that is affected by no input or state and whose output cannot be anticipated. Currently, only quantum effects (e.g., electron tunneling across a (thermally compensated) diode junction) qualify. For a binary random variable, the odds of the next output value being zero or one are always 50/50 -- notably independent of previous output values or the current environment (temperature, voltage, etc.). --<www.mathstar.com/Technology_Glossary_QR.htm>

No such thing exists. Random is just what massively complex and subtle chains of causality are called.

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