grizzly
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I was watching Modern Marvels the other night and they were focusing on gambling devices. They got into people that programmed the computers that run slot machines and how the programmers can cheat them (and have done so successfully).
Modern Marvels interviewed a programmer that got caught telling his buddies how to cheat slot machines and he said that it is impossible to have a truly random draw from a computer. He said that they only read "0" and "1" in various forms, but can't create their own intelligence or generate information. (Slot machines use what is called a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which approximates the properties of random numbers, but is not truly random- wikipedia).
Basically, for you computer whiz's out there...
If it is true that slot machines aren't random, how can it be different for hunting draws? Are they truly random? If not, does it matter?
Grizzly
Modern Marvels interviewed a programmer that got caught telling his buddies how to cheat slot machines and he said that it is impossible to have a truly random draw from a computer. He said that they only read "0" and "1" in various forms, but can't create their own intelligence or generate information. (Slot machines use what is called a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), which approximates the properties of random numbers, but is not truly random- wikipedia).
Basically, for you computer whiz's out there...
If it is true that slot machines aren't random, how can it be different for hunting draws? Are they truly random? If not, does it matter?
Grizzly