[Sussex] More on Bad Maths

[Nik Butler]

> Randomness is, of course a purely hypothetical concept - there is no such
> thing as a Random number.  Simply sampling any given entity in the universe
> for ay property will not do, because those states are physical absolutes and
> are predetermined by the state of everything else in the universe.
> Moreover, as _any_ computer scientist would tell you it is impossible for a
> computer to ever generate a random number (for obvious reasons), so when you
> use rnd() (or whatever it is in your language-of-choice) you are simply
> relying on a suitable simulation of randomness.
not at all disputed, but the competition was to generate a algorithm
that produced a random number. . . Petard and Hoisted me thinks ! 

<grin>

And yes I will have that drink <grin>

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From: Michael Wolf
You know what seems odd to me? Numbers that aren't divisible by two."