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Computers are deterministic. Maybe you can convince yourself that something in the outside world isn't, and generate numbers based off of that, like radioactiv
by studentrob 10y ago
Computers are deterministic. Maybe you can convince yourself that something in the outside world isn't, and generate numbers based off of that, like radioactive decay. Even that may be deterministic. I think it's a question for quantum-mechanics or philosophers.
Anyway, practically speaking, we tend to be happy with random numbers that other people would have a really difficult time copying.
- Dylan16807 10y agoI suppose you could declare that true randomness doesn't exist, but that doesn't make computers special... Anyway, most of the transistors in a chip are barely kept in a range where they're deterministic. Just push some out of that range, and you get randomness that's as true as anything else.