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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Eva Silverstein would tell you that that is true random. Kind of like if you roll a die, you won't get all the numbers once before one pops up again.
That said, I thought that iPods had a psuedo random order with no repeats first. Maybe that's not true on the shuffle.
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pseudo-random is geek-speak that acknowledges the way a processor "picks" a number makes it not truly random. say a program is to "randomly" pick 1 of a set of integers from 1-50. An algorith will typically be set to generate a number that varies and can be random. the number are not integers though. the generated number might be 49.7 and would be rounded to 50. Or it might be 49.2 and rounded to 49. but what if it is 49.5? the program has to have a way to pick- it might go up or down. something like that, anyway, makes it not completely unbiased to the numbers. but it is pretty random.
and iPods will play some songs twice before others are played at all.
