From: "Philip Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 12:36 AM
> I hear MIR is for sale. This could make a good PHP random function, one
> that always works! Let's pool our resources and get on it. Great thing
> is, no need for these mysterious seeds.
>
> philip
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Jerry Lake wrote:
>
> > We may as we set it up in space
> > to minimalize gravity and friction
> > -can't be adding any predictable forces ;)
Ahh... but gravity and friction are exactly what makes the result
unpredictable. If in no-gravity and in vacuum, you ought to be able to
predict which ball you get, by taking into account the parameters when
throwing the balls (direction of each ball, speed, spinning, etc.) and the
sorroundings (walls' angels, extruding features - of which there would be
plenty onboard the Mir - etc.).
So the outcome will not be random but a precise (if mindnumbing) calculated
result. :-)
Maybe I ought to enter decaf-mode...
- Carsten
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