Re: PBM die rolls...use your state lottery numbers.

From: rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)

Date: Sat, 06 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000

thomasSPAMGUARD@clark.net (Mark Thomas) wrote:
>In article <EKoDKB.Fu2@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
>rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell) wrote:
>>"Bob Luthardt" <luthardt@clark.net> wrote:
>>>use the double digit number rolled as your basis rather than stock
>>>information for the reasons Richard pointed out. Lottery numbers are fully
>>>random (we hope) as opposed to a stock like Microsoft, or a utility that
>>>seems to rise in value in spite of collosal blunders like MS Bob (no
>>>relation).
>
>>Point your finger, eyes closed, to a random spot on the stock sheets page.  If
>>you hit a non-numeric column, try again.  Then, starting with that number,
>>write down as many numbers as you need _going_down_ the column (this insures
>>that each number has absolutely no relation with the one before it).   Use the
>>numers as a pseudo-random seed, or as a number to modulo.
>
>In general I suspect stock numbers, price or volume, are bad choices for
>random numbers when modulo math is applied. I'd guess there are patterns in
>the volume numbers resulting from human's tendency to sell stock in blocks. A

Not to mention that it is actually easier to move blocks of 100 on most
exchanges, but unfortunately you are completely missing the of this method.

Lets say a portion of the page looks like this:

182341.09
5692.12
383212.93
865758302.01

Let's say your finger happens to fall on the '2' in the first row.  You then
read down the _columns_of_digites, so you'd get 2,9,3,5; not 234109 etc.

This way there is _no_ connection between successive digits in any way, adn
the number is, for all intents and purposes, entirely random.

-Robin
PS: You may, however, want to re-try if you land on, say, the digit just to
the left of the decimal place in teh Volume column as that's going to be 0
much more often than not.

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PBM die rolls
Warloc@webtv.net (G C)
Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM die rolls...use your state lottery numbers.
"Bob Luthardt" <luthardt@clark.net>
Wed, 03 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM die rolls...use your state lottery numbers.
rlpowell@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Robin Lee Powell)
Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Re: PBM die rolls...use your state lottery numbers.
thomasSPAMGUARD@clark.net (Mark Thomas)
Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000