<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 9:51 AM, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
</span>Wouldn't a clear spherical container be more random? Like the lottery machines,<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It would be more uniform in bounce surface geometry, for sure. "More random" is an interesting phrase... like "more perfect" i'm not sure you can have more or less of a pure state.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The inside of a sphere might be ideal for the shuffling phase of randomly orienting the nanogeezer, but I think the curvature will greatly influence the landing phase.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">There might be a reason philosophers have pondered this ratio for millenia. Perhaps we should instead build then ask recursively improving artificial intelligence to solve this one? :p<br></div></div>