Re:What does randomness look like?
by lutusp on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:16PM
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> Last thought, if there was a truely random number generator then why do fruitmachines have control systems to monitor the distribution and with that what is paid out to maintain that x% payout to comply with laws that say x% of money taken has to be payed out.
That's easy to answer -- to comply with rules that require a certain outcome some x percentage of the time, one need only take a truly random generator's output and filter it by x:
outcome = (rn * 100 <= x);
If rn is a float, lies between 0 and 1 and is truly random, then the above trivial filter will produce the required distribution in the long term.
That's easy to answer -- to comply with rules that require a certain outcome some x percentage of the time, one need only take a truly random generator's output and filter it by x:
outcome = (rn * 100 <= x);
If rn is a float, lies between 0 and 1 and is truly random, then the above trivial filter will produce the required distribution in the long term.