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From: Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com>
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Truly Random Numbers On A Quantum Computer??
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2025 22:39:26 +0000
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

> On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:50:06 +0000, Richmond wrote:
>
>> Random is without a predictable pattern or plan.
>
> Let’s say I collect and store a sequence that meets your definition. Then 
> I play it back when you ask me for a random number sequence. Does it still 
> meet your definition? If not, what has changed?

Because you have stored it, it is predictable by you and you have a
plan.

If I took some numbers from the square root of 2, maybe thousands of
digits into it, and then presented them to you, to you they would be
random because you wouldn't know where they came from or what the next
digit in the sequence would be. But they aren't random, because I know
and I can repeat them. I don't even need to store them.