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From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee )
Newsgroups: comp.ai,talk.philosophy.misc
Subject: Re: Random numbers
Keywords: Matter, Energy, Information, Knowledge, Values, Free Will
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Date: 10 Dec 88 04:03:07 GMT
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>>Not only is there room for the possibility of indeterminacy, some
>>of us deliberately encorporate elements of randomness into our
>>behaviors.
>Interesting.  Do you use a true or a pseudo random number generator
>to introduce this randomness?

You can get a random number by thinking of 5 or 6 of them, adding them,
and taking the result mod (whatever).  Of course, random numbers in your
head don't really have that much use...
--
"Unfortunately, Ultraman, the superman of Earth-3 who gains powers from
Kryptonite, fried your poor machine-gunner..."

--Kenneth Arromdee (ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP, arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu,
	g49i0188@jhuvm.BITNET) (not arrom@aplcen, which is my class account)