Comments on: Digit frequency in pi http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/397?&owa_medium=feed&owa_sid= Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:37:54 -0800 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nicholas Gaul http://www.ourada.org/blog/archives/397/comment-page-1#comment-25718 Nicholas Gaul Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:21:55 +0000 http://www.ourada.org/blog/?p=397#comment-25718 Sad to say, this is an instance where scientific intuition will simply fail you. There is a reason for this strange distribution--somewhere out there, someone is playing a role-playing or strategy game, either online or physically, and they meant to tap these number streams in place of clumsy rolls of the dice or other pseudo-random number generators. But the random number gods are not so easily fooled. The graph has the bumps it does because that distribution was necessary to punish the ambitions of some poor geek somewhere. Sad to say, this is an instance where scientific intuition will simply fail you. There is a reason for this strange distribution–somewhere out there, someone is playing a role-playing or strategy game, either online or physically, and they meant to tap these number streams in place of clumsy rolls of the dice or other pseudo-random number generators. But the random number gods are not so easily fooled.

The graph has the bumps it does because that distribution was necessary to punish the ambitions of some poor geek somewhere.

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