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Old 29th October 2003, 00:30     #100
armourking
 
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Originally posted by AycorzFewdz
"armourking: And sometimes the fittest don't survive. Just because you have an advantage over, say, other fish of your type, doesn't mean the water hole you live in won't dry up. Or the asteriod will not smack into you. "

Yeah but wouldn't the other "not-fittest" fish die along with the fittest. So i don't see the point you're trying to make.
Because the 'crap' fish in the next water hole survive.
What I was trying to put across in a way that, sadly, seemed you have to engage your brain at some point was: Evolution is not deterministic. Chance plays a big part in it, (Bigger than most people are comfortable with - "But surely the whole point is humanity!") because Chaos theory states that microscopic changes have macroscopic consequences. But for a single atom, we might not be at all.

Oh, and "It's not a random number between 6 and 15... its a set value between these 2 integers. "

That is because X was defined as 1 to 10. In the contex of this bound, the result is random. If you want, take the bound off, let X:= - infinity <= X <= + infinity, then see what happens.

Last edited by armourking : 29th October 2003 at 00:34.
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