29 Nov
2002
29 Nov
'02
7:06 p.m.
Hi
( 02.11.28 13:19 +0000 ) Enrique Franco:
I mean, for instance, if the random range is 5 I want to get a different number each time.
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, .--- ... wrote:
But that's not random!!
( 02.11.29 11:14 -0500 ) Mathieu Bouchard:
It's a Markov chain with a probability matrix of:
Then that's not random!
"Almost always, such numbers are also required to be independent, so that there are no correlations between successive numbers." http://mathworld.wolfram.com/RandomNumber.html
I *am* splitting hairs here. I know that. This discussion has little to do with the needs of the pd user anymore. [maybe I'm just being too deterministic in my definition of randomness ... ]
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