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You aren't suggesting that something random should be predictable, right?
by thisisauserid 3y ago
You aren't suggesting that something random should be predictable, right?
- 0xFF0123 3y ago"Almost" suggests it is predictably fewer
- AlecSchueler 3y agoIt suggests roughly the same amount, could be higher or lower.
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- niles 3y agoAround would do that more effectively. Almost is more similar to nearly, and I agree commonly used for lower.
- KTibow 3y ago"Around" might be better
- flir 3y agoI read "almost as many" as "not quite as many". In other words, fewer. My mental model is that an unbiased random stream of 1's and 0's should converge on 50% 1's and 50% 0's over time, not 49% 1's and 51% 0's. Looks like it's a language ambiguity thing I'm not quite getting.
- madeofpalk 3y agoTo converge on 50% implies 49%\51% prior. Almost even.
- ruune 3y agoOver time, it should be almost 50/50, yeah. What if you got 10000001 random numbers? There's no way it's exactly 50/50 with an uneven amount. It's almost 50/50