This pair of posts re pRNG (pseudo random number generators) presumably was prompted by a reference in a recent post to whether video poker outcomes are impacted by the timing of a button hit.
It goes without saying that card selection in current vp equipment is impacted by button hit timing. However, that influence doesn't go so far as having any impact on expected outcomes.
Therefore, for all intents and purposes, the timing of button hits is immaterial to any type of game analysis.
(And as far as the distinction between pRNG results and true random card occurrence, the thing to take home is that statistically one can't be distinguished from the other, and therefore it's not a significant distinction for the purposes of game evaluation.)
- H.
---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <nightoftheiguana2000@...> wrote :
John von Neumann on random numbers: "Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method."
https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf https://dornsifecms.usc.edu/assets/sites/520/docs/VonNeumann-ams12p36-38.pdf
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