A small Widget that tosses a theoretical coin a set number of times and shows the results. It's of possible use to those that said the original coin toss Widget was not random!
April 15, 2006 ·
version 1 Physics Major, Math Minor
It is a nice try. For those that don't know, it's based off of the "random" function included of Konfabulator's Javascript, which I would assume works fairly well. Except there's a glaring problem in the computer theory of it all which means you really can't use this to skip actually tossing the coin like your teacher/professor assigned.
As any (decent) professor will tell you, computers simply cannot generate random numbers. The point is, no matter what you do …with a computer, a "random" number is always based on something - the last number used, the date and time, etc. If you knew what it was based off of (which is theoretically possible) you could predict what number you'd get. A truly random number cannot be predicted.
For instance, there were a group of mathematicians who attempted to generate a book of random numbers. They analyzed their set of numbers for several years, and were only able to determine that the numbers werMore
April 14, 2006 ·
version 1 The Eldon Waldo
It appears it's as random as a random thing (which is quite random) and I'm more impressed than not on those stakes, but we'll see............................
April 14, 2006 ·
version 1 bron
Excellent! seems random! but how would I really know ;)
Good job!