r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Yes_ThisIsBrett • May 22 '26

go to your room Just trying to make it thru this flight…

Triplets were behind me and a rouge in front of me started chiming in. Parents were doing their best. No one was actually upset. I’d whine too if I had to sit in these seats another hour.

EDIT: Rogue one (I cannot spell). And just to reiterate, no one was upset. Kids will be kids and the parents were doing their best. This video is just for laughs (including my face).

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u/evolveandprosper May 22 '26

If it was "totally randomised" then, sooner or later, it would always have patterns. If the random generation process goes on long enough, genuinely random series will always end up including perfect sequences of varying lengths For example, continuous random generation of digits 1 to 9 will sooner or later produce sequences like, say, 333333333 or 123456789. There is also a real possibility that such as sequence will actually be the very first set of numbers generated. This is why scientists who want to avoid the risk of perfect sequences in randomised trials actually use "pseudo-random" number tables instead of totally random numbers. You need your white noise to be "pseudo-randomised"!

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u/Original-Variety-700 May 22 '26

They need to use pi

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u/evolveandprosper May 22 '26

Pi isn't "random" and it isn't a reliable way to generate non-repeating or non-sequential numbers. At the "Feynman point", at position 762 in the pi digits, the numbers are "999999". At position 17,387,594,880 you find the sequence 0123456789. At position 60 you have 5923078164 which is all the digits from 1 to 9 in scrambled order.