I believe I understand where you are coming from but that would insinuate that given all the environmental variables that a naturally occurring (non-mechanically generated) action or event is re-creatable. That no action is truly random and you would have the same result each and every time if it were possible to re-create. Excluding mechanical and electronic equipment I have not read or seen anything to lead me to believe that this is in fact the case.
Regarding the randomness of Richards’s code it is not truly random in the sense the outcome is re-creatable. It is not easily re-creatable but it is not impossible. Given all the environmental variables preset I.E. the uptime of the system, the current millisecond in time, and so on, and the output would be the same each and every time. Nothing of true randomness is entered into the solution. I had a discussion over lunch the other day with a friend about the possibility of using the frequency of sound captured through a microphone as the basis of a random variable in a complex pseudo random number generator. As long as you’re not trying to generate it in a vacuum it should work, and if you were you would probably be dead and would not care. He had suggested that the current location of the read heads on the hard drive may be a possible variable in the formula. O’well, I guess I’ll work on that one after I solve the Hodge Conjecture.
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