Re: [PHP] Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution

On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 13:16 -0500, tedd wrote:
At 10:17 AM -0500 12/12/07, Robert Cummings wrote:
> In my ancient past I worked with a x-ray detector and we simply
truncated to the tens digit -- that was pretty random.

Random seeming you mean. As mentioned in the original post, just because
the timeline and sample space is immense doesn't make it random, it just
makes it difficult to guess. In fact, someone already mentioned the case
of computers in casinos that can predict the landing spot of a roulette
ball.

Just because someone said it, doesn't mean it's true.

I remember in the old days where they used roulette wheels to
generate random lists.

Seemingly random lists... We haven't proven random yet ;)

Cheers,
Rob.
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