Quote: Originally posted by SozzledBoot on Apr 15, 2013
Thank you all for responding. There isn't much info out there on this guy but...
he seemed to be heading in a direction I've often thought about and that is this:
In order for a random number to be truly random, there has to be a kind of meta math (math outside of math) to insure that patterns are always separated from non-patterns.
Think about it. If a set of numbers over the course of a year or so are truly random, why dont we see random snippets of purely sequential numbers as often as non sequential?
I mean...
...isn't that what even the theory of evolution touts?
So you should see in a Pick-3, for example, a sequential snippet like: 222, 223,224,225,226,227,228,229,230,231,232,233. My understanding is that a RNG doesn't care as long as those numbers were what popped up. But random numbers DO care...and that's my point. Random numbers care that they are random!
If not, then I want my money back on the theory of evolution!
But here would have been my question: How do you map a vertical column like this:
123
456
789
012
Into two square boxes like this:
- 0 - 2 - 8
2 - 7 - 6 -
- 4 - 8 - 9
5 - 3 - 1 -
Which is similar to what Author Encoe did. He never explains it. (Note the vertical column is accurate, and the box layouts and patterns are accurate, but I forgot the exact order of numbers he used in the boxes where there is no dash mark; I returned the books for a refund because I couldn't get past that point).