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"These look really random" - I hope I missed your sarcasm.

That is so far from random.

Think of tossing a coin and getting ten heads in a row.

The probability of not repeating numbers in 10 numbers out of 10 is huge, and not random.

Randomness is why there is about a 50% chance of 2 people in a class of about thirty having a birthday on the same day.

Apple had to nerf their random play in iPod because songs repeated a lot.

Randomness clusters, it doesn't evenly distribute across its range, or it's not random.



Oh yes, /s.

(I thought this was obvious and absolutely agree with your explanation.)




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