Re: true random number generator

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Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 13:53:46 GMT

Tom St Denis wrote:
> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> > Tom St Denis wrote:
> >> Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:
> >>>If pigs had wings then they would fly.
> >> Not true. Penguins have wings and they can't fly.
> > If we're going to nitpick, then you are incorrect
> > to say "Not true." Unless there *are* some winged
> > pigs somewhere, the implication as a whole is true.
> Um actually quite the opposite. Recall wings are required but not
> sufficient condition of flight. So the implication as a whole is false.

No, it is well known to anybody who has *learned* logic
that a false premise can imply anything.

Your argument is against some claim that I never made,
more or less of the form "having wings would enable
pigs to fly". But that's not what I said, and I used
the traditional canonical assertion because it was
precisely analogous to the originally posted statement
and made the exact point that it is always intended to
make.

> Of course look who I'm talking with... loser troll boy Douglas Assholoholic
> Gwyn the loser jerk who denies the existance of the IACR....

Of course that is all wrong. For example, when have I
ever denied the existence of the IACR?

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