[Sussex] More on Bad Maths

[Geoff Teale]

Mark wrote:
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> Since when?
> 
> Suggest that a quick visit to the library for "Six Not So 
> Easy Pieces" by 
> Richard Feynmann, and a flip to the chapter on Qunatum 
> physics would be in 
> order at this point.
> 
> Some states are:
> 
> 1: Not, as it turns out, physical absolutes.
> 2: Not actually deterministic.

Now _that_ is more like it.  OK, now all you need to do is to give wholey
accepted proof of that theorum (not actually hard as it has been
investigated in quite some depth by a lot of physicists) and then find an
algorithmic method of exploting those states to generate random numbers
inside a computer.

Mark I have to say that you do come across as remarkably well read on such
things - I on the other hand talk about what I know (or think I know) and
then when it is questioned I turn to people who know.. thus when I talk
about law I often offer up the wisdom of my wife (a lawyer in the countries
leading IP, media and technology law firm) and when we get into quantum
physics I'm likely to give my dad a ring (so there may be a delay in
communications).  I don't do this to appear clever, but rather to ensure
that the information is as correct, or as valid at is can be - it benefits
no-one if I just spout off at the mouth.

-- 
geoff.teale at claybrook.co.uk
tealeg at member.fsf.org

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of
course, in a state of sin.
-- J. von Neumann


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