Math and Spawn Rates

[Telados]

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.

[Wisteso]

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

How on Earth is a player of an MMO like EverQuest that generates thousands of random numbers per minute going to know which digit of pi is currently being used for his rotting skeleton spawn??? Or that it's pi that's being used and not the fifth root of 19?

While I'll agree that no one on P99 probably has the talent to reverse engineer the RNG (probably, not definitely)... Your "security by obscurity" has been proven to be a bad idea many many times before. DVD and Blu-Ray encryption cracking were both basically done by reverse engineering a type of security by obscurity that was much more complex than "using part of Pi".