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The Lottery Lady
“Take the typical state lotto. If you knew all of the variables in the machine that draws the numbers, you can solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”
Ummmm….yeah…I’m gonna have to go ahead and disagree with you there. Most of those machines blow ping-pong balls around with air, which is most likely turbulent, and they are blown up into the slots when the lottery lady pulls the lever for the slot. Since, at a minimum, you can’t solve for the state of the lottery lady, you can’t “solve for which numbers will land in the winning numbers area.”
(Never mind the outrageous accuracy of initial conditions and precision of the calculations you’d need to solve for the movement of ~4 dozen ping-pong balls being blown around by turbulent air.)
From Slashdot comments, of course. And this doesn’t even breach the topic of Heisenberg Uncertainty…
