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Imponderable of the Day

by Paul • April 8, 2005 • 09:25 PM • Comments: 1

In a sense, there is no such thing as a random number; for example, is 2 a random number?

—Donald Knuth, quoted in Knuth 3:16


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T. Rap Ezoid on April 10, 2005 10:47 PM

"Ubi materia, ibi geometria."
— Johannes Kepler

Kind of supports th whole lack of entropy thing, don't you think?


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