Random Number Generator and Expectations

[Steve Flynn]

On 09/07/07, Joel Bryan Juliano <joelbryan.juliano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good Day,
>
> I have a really awesome experiment using Linux random number generator.
> This may sound crazy, but if I want to produce more 5's, I get more
> 5's, and any number that I can think of that I want to get more, is
> then produced.


That's because they are not truely random - what you're seeing is
pseudo-random.


I would like to ask for a website that offers a random number
> generator, and if I can be able to influence that, it means that
> somehow, we can influence remote computers by just wanting things to
> happen to it.
>

http://www.randomnumbers.info/

-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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