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Old 02-05-2004, 06:07 PM   #39 (permalink)
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Originally posted by PorscheBunny
… and by the time you analyzed all the potential data, you'd find that it is impossible for the human hand to flip a fair coin accurately enough consistently to make it disobey probability (ie 50% heads over an infinite number of flips).
Yes, but the result of the flip is still not "random". The coin and our hand are still subject to the laws of physics. On a superficial and practical level randomness exists. But if there were a computer that could calculate all the human/enviromental factors involved in that coin flip, the results probably wouldnt be random. But for all practical purposes it is.
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