On Jun 29, 2014, at 0:28, Kai Krakow wrote:
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> Matti Nykyri schrieb:
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>>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow wrote:
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>>> Matti Nykyri schrieb:
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If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple
one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 b
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:37 PM, wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
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>> That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin
>> an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing
>> on the same face N times in a row is 1.
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> This is cer
On Sat, Jun 28 2014, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
> That doesn't matter. Take a non-negative integer N; if you flip a coin
> an infinite number of times, then the probability of the coin landing
> on the same face N times in a row is 1.
This is certainly true.
> This means that it is *guaranteed*
On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
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> I cannot follow your reasoning here - but I'd like to learn. Actually, I ran
> this multiple times and never saw long sets of the same character, even no
> short sets of the same character. The 0 or 1 is always rolled over into the
> nex
Matti Nykyri schrieb:
>> On Jun 27, 2014, at 0:00, Kai Krakow wrote:
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>> Matti Nykyri schrieb:
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>>> If you are looking a mathematically perfect solution there is a simple
>>> one even if your list is not in the power of 2! Take 6 bits at a time of
>>> the random data. If the result is 62
On Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:50:15 +0200, Kai Krakow wrote:
> You can actually learn from Dilbert comics. ;-)
Unless you're a PHB, they never learn.
--
Neil Bothwick
"You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of
them are even dumber than that" - Lewton, P.I.
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thegeezer schrieb:
> On 06/26/2014 11:07 PM, Kai Krakow wrote:
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>> It is worth noting that my approach has the tendency of generating random
>> characters in sequence.
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> sorry but had to share this http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/
:-)
I'm no mathematician, but well, I think the
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