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Rnd function
Zelos:
I know how to create a perfect randomizer, give a radiation detector, some radioactive material, connect the detecter to the computer and create random or logical things it will become random cause the radioactive material decay is completly random ^_^ thats the perfect randomizer.
Griz:
--- Quote ---I know how to create a perfect randomizer, give a radiation detector, some radioactive material, connect the detecter to the computer and create random or logical things it will become random cause the radioactive material decay is completly random ^_^ thats the perfect randomizer.
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I am not in disagreement my friend ...
I think that is as close as one can come.
but even if what you say is so ...
how would one ever be able to verify that? ;)
to catch any 'mistake' it made ...
or to verify it did not ...
you would have to employ a system of observation
that is more random than the one you are observing.
it's like trying to see the eye with the eye ...
or to understand the mind using the mind.
as long as there is a subject/object split ...
there exists this division/duality ...
a part that is observer ...
which is separate from the observed.
so our very looking/questioning ...
alters what we find.
is it not so?
Griz:
--- Quote ---I'm sticky-ing this thread because every two or three months I go hunting for that incredibly book with the chapters I posted near the beginning of the thread, and have to hunt this damn thign down.
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yeah. thanks Num ... a good read.
Numsgil:
You can find the whole book here.
There are some outright amazing stuff in there beyond even just random numbers. Some of the math I've started learning in my 400 level math courses, to give you an idea of the difficulty...
Zelos:
I tried the random in vb and it worx very well if you use both date and time, cause each second and hour and day is different so it wont repeat for a very long time and then its very random
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