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To: Graystone who wrote (1685)8/6/1999 1:48:00 AM
From: E. Charters  Read Replies (2) of 2617
 
Oh an idea. While you aren't too busy devise me a simple mathematical algorithm that will spew out numbers in a completely incoherent and non repeating fashion. It shouldn't be too hard to create a little ditty that will give you numbers that cannot be predicted. All it takes is some kind of loop that screws up in predictability and exits with a completely off the wall number different every time or at least different in such a way that you cannot tell what the next number is going to be. How many times is such a thing allowed to repeat itself? I guess any number of times but not predictably so.

Let me know when you've got it built.

One idea I had is something that generates primes and then divides them by one of the generated primes and spits out the remainder as your number, then uses the remainder to select the next divisor. Will it oscillate in a pattern? hmmmm... but it could be figured out...

Is nature the only predictable-non predictable oscillator? what makes it so? OR is its happenstance rythmic and ordained?

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