[identity profile] meihua.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
hahaha! Brilliant! :D

[identity profile] davesangel.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
This is made of awesome :D

[identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm. I wonder if even numbers are more likely (or composite numbers generally) due to people c&p, or not.

[identity profile] meihua.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm. My first thought was, "that doesn't make sense" - but then I thought that if the string c&p'd is even in length, final string would always be even, and if the string c&p'd was odd, the final string would be pretty much 50/50 odd/even. Which I guess means that 3/4 of final strings generated by c&p would probably be even. (Or more, if they were generated by a series of c&p macro-ups, each stage of which would be biased towards spitting out an even result which would remain even for the rest of the operation.)

So in summary, I agree. :)

[identity profile] captainlucy.livejournal.com 2009-01-16 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Odd, I was just thinking of this at lunchtime and thinking I'd try that google search again when I have a few spare minutes hours! :D

[identity profile] johnbobshaun.livejournal.com 2009-01-17 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely wonderful, thanks :-D