Thanks Frank, That is very simplistic to comprehend and I get that the machine is the only variable, I gather what you are saying, which, of course, leads to yet, another inquiry.
I do have a mathematics inquiry, regarding random vs non random.
How do you feel this scenario' below might factor into VP ?
Kenny & I are going on a scavenger hunt to retrieve 20 items :
Myself, being told to gather all the items randomly, in math, this is called an non deterministic algorithm.
Then, Kenny is told to gather them in a determined order, this is called a deterministic algorithm.
The results are the same. However, I would probably find them first..hehe
I both hunts, there is just one common denominator, that would be 'the items' retrieved.
~ ¤(¯`*•.¸(¯`*•.¸ Meredith ¸.•*´¯)¸.•*´¯)¤ ~
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
--- On Tue, 1/4/11, Frank <frank@progressivevp.com> wrote:
From: Frank <frank@progressivevp.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Twas The Night Before New Years
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, January 4, 2011, 8:24 AM
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Meredith And Kenny <meredithandkenny@...> wrote:New Question : Why would anyone want a 'certain' machine if all is random ?
For the same reason one would want fair dice in a craps game, or knowing that a drawing isn't rigged. Random doesn't mean unknowable, given the proper math knowledge. In fact it means exactly the opposite. If machines were non random then they couldn't be analyzed as easily, if at all.
In the event VP machines weren't random, one couldn't determine their return using permutational combinational mathematics. That would essentially invalidate my entire career.
I can tell you my own results. When you use statistics to prove combinational calculations, you can never be sure of anything other than in your limited sample the results did, or did not meet expectation. When running the slot team with 88 players, our results and expectations were almost a dead heat. I have seen nothing in twenty years to lead me to believe that VP machines are anything but random...except for some extreme short-lived exceptions that were prosecuted harshly by the gaming commission, when found.
Keep your your machines random and your play non-random, don't get that mixed up...
Does that answer your question?
~FK
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