Math and Spawn Rates

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Originally Posted by koros [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Quantum mechanically speaking, all events are random, and fall into different probability distributions... if that's a fundamentally correct view of the universe is debatable.

The best way to view individual events, when trying to perceive this, is as part of a larger probability surface or distribution. Remember that game at arcades where you dropped a ball, and it would plink through a ton of metal pegs, and you'd get tickets based on how far from the center it landed? This is very similar. Assuming 100 flips of a coin, there are a lot more "paths" to 50 heads and 50 tails, then there are to 100 heads. You could get 50 heads in a row, then 50 tails, 1 head, 49 tails, 50 heads, 1 head, 48 tails, then 51 tails... just how large of a number of paths is incredibly mind bogglingly large. On the other side of the coin (no pun intended), there's only 1 possible way you can get 100 heads in a row. This is why distributions look and work the way they do.

Check this for visual reference:

http://www.nitinh.com/2011/01/facebo...blem-solution/

I was going to respond the same way to the prior poster.

Accoridng to quantuum mechanics, everything is chance and nothing - yes nothing - is deterministic. Very different from classical physics.