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What does it mean to be "random?"

• amichail 17y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_randomness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_randomness
  • _pius 17y ago
    Um, no. It has no meaning whatsoever for me to point at you, a number, a tree, a book and say "You are random." What trait are you measuring? What's the context? Or, if you want to be pedantic, what relation would you use to order a group of people by their respective "randomness?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order
    • amichail 17y ago
      As an example, such a game might ask you to tap an iPhone screen 100 times in a minute and then use statistical tests to determine how random those 100 locations are.