Random Numbers III
Ben Gunderson (beng@ucla.edu)
Sun, 26 Nov 95 13:37:31 -0800
Several people have left posts regaurding random numbers, and some of them
feel that a number can NOT be random if there is human input. Well what
if I said to pick a number between 1 and 10, How is this number not
random, it is human input and output, every number has a one tenth
probability of being selected. X is a random varible with range 1,2,..,10,
P(X) = 1/10 for 1,2,..10, zero elsewhere. Any time you can not predict an
outcome with 100% accuacy it is because of some kind of random variable.
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