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Old 22-04-2022, 11:01   #1787
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
A computer will ( certainly earlier ones, I have to admit I’m not sure about AI) only do what is told and within those parameters.
You can easily generate a truly random number on almost any computer. You simply ask the user to press a button, then time how long it takes them to do it.

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Originally Posted by Pierre View Post
A pseudorandom sequence of numbers is one that appears to be statistically random, despite having been produced by a completely deterministic and repeatable process.
There's no dispute about that. That's the difference between pseudorandom and truly random. But pseudorandom is good enough for most purposes, including political polling.
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