Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Random numbers don't exist

The randomness of numbers fascinates me. By and large numbers intimidate me, but, I have long had this subliminal hobby of relating numbers. Phone numbers, PIN numbers, license plate numbers – I look at the them and I begin to draw a relation between them, so as to make memory sense. It is in this strange pursuit that I discovered that there is no such thing as a random number. It’s random only so long as it does not exist in your consciousness for a particular context. Once you’ve picked or noticed a number, it ceases to be random.

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