Supposedly even a live deck of cards is not random unless it undergoes at least seven "perfect" riffle shuffles (and my own assessment of that assertion is, that if they are in fact "perfect" shuffles, then you should be able to track every card that you knew the location of before the shuffle - theoretically, if not in practice).
I'd be more concerned that the machine is not using a random number generator of any kind, i.e., the ones (and I've seen the classification discussed here, but can't remember it) that are more like a lottery in determining whether you'll get a winner or not.
I think there's more risk of a rigged machine than of one that is intended to be random by the manufacturer and the casino, but turns out not to be.
None of this is to say that the RNG can't be flawed (intentionally or by design flaw), or the machine rigged, or that most anything else that we wouldn't like, might not actually occur.
--BG
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3a. Pseudorandom number or just random - is there difference
Date: Tue Aug 22, 2017 9:15 am ((PDT))
I seem to remember reading, I think, VP random referred to as pseudorandom number generator. Maybe I am remembering wrong. Is it correct term, does it exist as the term or is it different than random as in a live deck of cards as opposed to electronic deck of cards?
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