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Re: What to pass to srand()?

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> Dealing cards, though, unless done from an infinite number of decks, is
> always without replacement. 


I was not referring to dealing.  

Consider this.  Everyone knows the card trick when you take a card, look at it and put it back.  This is with replacement.

You still can pick a random card from a random deck, then it won't matter how random the generator is.  Shuffle the deck using an imperfect random # generator, and pick a random card using the imperfect generator.  It won't matter if the sequence repeats because the cards at those locations will have been changed, making the outcome pretty random.

As in real life, I don't believe the die should be equally likely either.  To me this is not random either.  It is more like controlling the laws of averages, so each die has an equal chance of showing each number, which is what we humans want from a perfect world.  If this were true and each number had an equal chance of showing up, I would have won Lotto 6/49 a long time ago.  My lucky numbers sure are not being given an equal chance.

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    Re: What to pass to srand()? Matt <matt@clickertraining.co.nz> - 2014-01-19 09:22 +1300
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