Posted: Apr 22, 2010 6:57 pm
rainbow wrote:Count Otto Black wrote:rainbow wrote:Count Otto Black wrote:rainbow wrote:Yes, and since nobody but you has made that assertion, it remains an absurdity.
I haven't made that assertion either.It means an unpredictable outcome.
Is a horse race random?
Only when the winner is a batch of strawberry jam.
We know the starting position of each horse and their direction and their destination. We might know their form in previous races, their age and the weight they'll be carrying. Is the outcome predictable?
Yes.
Is the next number on a roulette wheel predictable?
Kind of yesish, just before the ball drops, but no if it is to guess some arbitrary spin tomorrow. Same as planetary motion. Predictable in the near-term but we cannot easily identify where a planet will be in the long term.