|  | Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 02/20/07 21:57 
CoreyWhite wrote:>
 > Because the ordering is random!  That means you can eliminate all of
 > the logical patters.  And as long as you have a sense of the patterns
 > the cases could be in which are most random.  Then you have a much
 > better guess of knowing where they will be.
 >
 > Random algorithms will almost never generate this order:
 >
 > 12345
 > 67890
 >
 > Because they are trying to be random.  And only a human could do it!
 >
 
 Actually, of the order is truly random (impossible on a computer - but
 let's say it is), then this combination has *exactly* the same odds of
 coming up as any other combination - 1 in 3,628,000.
 
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