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Author Re: [OT] random numbers in fortran
Jugoslav Dujic

2006-12-11, 7:12 pm

lane straatman wrote:
| Ian Bush wrote:
|| Jugoslav Dujic wrote:
||| Gordon Sande wrote:
||||
|||| Physical shuffles are not "random". So you can make any claim you want
|||| and it then up to you to do everything that folows completely and
|||| correctly. You will end up talking to yourself with noone to replicate
|||| your results. And then there is also the problem of justifying your
|||| claims.
| As I thought about it last night, that was where I ended up too.
|
||| Bridge players often complain that computer-dealt hands, occuring in large
||| tournaments and online play, exhibit much more "vivid" and wild
||| distributions than "normal" (i.e. hand-shuffled hands).
|||
||
|| Complain ? Those are the fun hands !
| I thought I was the last in the species to play bridge. LS

Ah, no, there's more of us :-).

Good players (like myself, ehm :o) ) like those fun hands; that's
where the edge is shown. There's no worse thing than a set of dull
boards against weak opponents (except possibly a set of vivid
boards against better opponents, as I experienced few days ago,
having suffered a 25:1 defeat in the decisive match :-( )

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Jugoslav
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