Can math.atan2 return INF?

Lawrence D’Oliveiro lawrencedo99 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 03:39:38 EDT 2016


On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 7:32:55 PM UTC+12, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Lawrence D’Oliveiro writes:
>> The definition of “random” is “unknowable”. So all you are stating is
>> a tautology.
> 
> What?  No.  You read a bunch of bits out of the device and you want to
> know whether they are Kolmogorov-random (you can look up what that means
> if you're not familiar with it).  Quantum theory says they are, but if
> it is true, there is no scientific way to confirm it.

Randomness is not something you can ever prove. Which is why it is the weak point of all encryption algorithms.



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