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  1. JordiGH (jordigh@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Monday, 02-Sep-2019 11:36:43 EDT JordiGH JordiGH

    I know this makes me sound like a cranky jerk, but I really don't like when people describe as "random" everything about computers that they don't understand.

    Just because the explanation is difficult doesn't mean that there is no determinacy! Most things computers do are in fact predictable and understandable; true randomness is very rare.

    In particular, (I've ranted about this before), #FloatingPoint error is not random.

    In conversation Monday, 02-Sep-2019 11:36:43 EDT from mathstodon.xyz permalink
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