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Old 15-08-2005, 19:22   #7
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Re: Global conciousness project

pish... computers are incapable of generating random numbers unless they use some external source such as a radioactive source decaying, or static noise, or even a lavalamp ( i dunno). On their own, computers generate pseudo-random numbers, because numbers calculated through a deterministic process, cannot, by definition, be random. Given knowledge of the algorithm used to create the numbers and its internal state, you can predict all the numbers returned by subsequent calls to the algorithm, whereas with genuinely random numbers, knowledge of one number or an arbitrarily long sequence of numbers is of no use whatsoever in predicting the next number to be generated.
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