Thread: Evolution
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Old 28th October 2003, 18:20     #88
Lumpy
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Originally posted by armourking
I believe, by definition, anything with a random component is random.
It is like adding an odd number to an even number - you get an odd number.
I believe that you are quite wrong. If something is random then it has no structure, purpose, correlation, pattern etc. But if you give me something random, I could pick out something with a definite pattern. For example if you give a million randomly selected integers, I could pick out all the even ones and throw away the rest. Then it becomes highly structured and not at all random.
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