Randomness of a bit string

Lefty lefty at apple.com
Wed Jan 26 09:17:12 PST 1994


>I remember one of those MENSA-type tests where your were supposed to
>find the pattern in a set of numbers.  One of the strings were the
>stops of a NY City subway line!

...thereby demonstrating that Stephen Hawking, for instance, is probably
not qualified to join the ranks of Mensa.

I wish people would learn to distinguish "intelligence" from "high
tolerance for retaining massive amounts of pointless trivia".

Sorry, just a peeve of mine.

--
Lefty (lefty at apple.com)
C:.M:.C:., D:.O:.D:.








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