Saturday, March 21, 2009
Kaleidoscope as a novel Random Number Generator
Supposing a kaleidoscope contains just twenty small pieces of glass and that you make ten changes every minute, it will take the inconceivable space of 462,880,899,576 years and 360 days to go through the immense variety of changes it is capable of producing; amounting to an eternity. Or, if you take only twelve small pieces, and make ten changes every minute, it will then require 33,264 days, or 91 years and 49 days, to exhaust its variations.
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