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Subject: Re: Simulating the rolling of dices to produce truly random numbers?
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On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 7:50:21 AM UTC-8, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote=
:
> Is it possible? Any existing algorithms or published papers?

Are we assured that our human mind/intelligence can know if a number is tru=
ly random, or if a algorithm will generate a true random number? If algorit=
hmic, then deterministic? Is the idea of a truly random number an idea, but=
 not necessarily a number that can be proven to be random? How random is go=
od enough?

If I choose n among the set 1..500, based on my own sense of randomness, is=
 that random?