To: Right Wing Professor
There are no random numbers, only random processes. As you imply, once a number is given, it's no longer random.
1,162 posted on
02/28/2003 12:59:10 PM PST by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Doctor Stochastic
There are no random numbers, only random processes But..but...but...Dembski says one can detect design. I designed one of those numbers using a perfectly reproducible algorithm. You should be able to tell it's not random just from the sequence of digits, even if my thinking in designing it is not obvious to you.
(I was going to give digits 1001 through 1021 of pi. Then I realized it would be vulnerable to a google search.)
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