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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
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Subject: Re: Playing dice with the universe.
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Date: 21 Sep 88 02:24:30 GMT
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In article <40141@linus.UUCP> bwk@mbunix (Kort) writes:
>I don't know if God plays dice with the universe.  But I do know that
>us humans do play dice, and the outcome of our games does effect the
>course of history.  Casting lots is as old as recorded history.

Yes, we humans play dice.  But that doesn't prove they deliver _RANDOM_
results.  "Unpredictable", "random", and "independent" are distinguishable
properties.  Dice could be as determined as the digits of pi and still be
as humanly unpredictable.