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Phat
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Message 16 of 34 (86144)
02-13-2004 4:10 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Rrhain
02-12-2004 11:35 PM


Young students thesis and random ideas
Rrhain writes:
And if I were to take a handful of change and toss it on the ground and then take an identical handful of change and deliberately place each coin in the exact same pattern, by what criteria would you tell the two apart? And if you couldn't, why would a conclusion of them both being the product of "design" be more logical than a conclusion of "random"?
Allow me to tell you what I know of random. One of my pesky sins which shackled me and kept me broke and in bondage was gambling.(No longer, thank God!)Any yahoo knows that the house always wins, right? It seems that the way that I fell in to my sin was because out of 100 visits to the casino in a given time frame, I had won $98,000.00. Never mind that I eventually lost the $98,000.00 and then some, but my point in this confession and my curiousity pointed to how the random number generators worked on the slot machines. Legally, they have to set a percentage of a payout. When I was winning, it seemed as if not only I but many others were winning on about every third visit. The casino later changed the random process. I theorize that on a 90% payout quota, the machine can be set with variables in time and amount and still achieve the 90% ratio. Thus, people can be tricked into compulsive habits! Blast that mafia! _ Sorry if I got a bit off topic,young student. Pray for me not to do anything else stupid in my life and I will pray that God gives you a wise mind to write your paper with.

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Message 23 of 34 (86629)
02-16-2004 9:05 AM
Reply to: Message 22 by NosyNed
02-15-2004 11:50 PM


Lets redefine the original question
Hold up, everyone! What is the point that we all are trying to collectively clarify?

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