Random means
something proceeding, made,
or occurring without definite aim, reason, or pattern. To get a sense of something that is random,
it is something that has nothing to predict before, they only known once you
look. Because of this, coin flips and rolling die are not intrinsically random;
they are only random because of our ignorance. This is because if we could know
every initial condition, the exact properties and conditions that play for a
flip or roll, we could theoretically calculate the result before it even
happens. Sure enough, researchers have
built coin-flipping robots which can precisely control a flip to get the result
they want 100% of the time. We don't predict this often because it is extremely
difficult. Large amounts of precision would be needed because the smallest
difference between two initial conditions can be magnified overtime leading to
chaotic extremely difficulty to predict results.
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