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Monte Carlo Hits Again



Finally...An answer to "what good is Physics?"

The instruction sheet sent to me (unrequested) with a freebie on-line
gambling Casino CD, contains the following sentence:

"The games at Pharaoh's casino are based on true random numbers,
generated by a Geiger-Müller Tube Detector, which uses the
unpredictability of background radiation to generate genuinely random
numbers."

And to think, all this time I've been using my GM Tube to take
measurements. Do you think that schools will not have to remove their GM
Tubes because it might encourage gambling during the lab period?

Happy Pre-Millenium

Ray Rogoway

--
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep
And I have no more papers in a heap
And in the morning I can sleep
And stroll in those woods so dark and deep.
r. frosted