number generator

greg greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Mar 13 20:01:37 EDT 2007


Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> The 5th number is not "random".

More precisely, the fifth number is not *independent*
of the others. You can't have five independent random
numbers that sum to 50; only four independent numbers
plus a dependent one.

--
Greg



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