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I asked HyperCard to answer random numbers from 1 to 100 (100 times). The result is :

29, 11, 84, 38, 92, 92, 75, 54, 33, 97, 37, 96, 90, 93, 9, 22, 87, 11, 42, 10, 57, 95, 68, 74, 23, 84, 39, 41, 42, 22, 37, 62, 90, 61, 79, 43, 2, 25, 77, 74, 23, 12, 41, 78, 64, 7, 97, 9, 45, 11, 37, 80, 66, 16, 29, 34, 50, 26, 51, 53, 12, 50, 34, 13, 58, 88, 93, 39, 41, 67, 29, 33, 34, 55, 25, 45, 33, 26, 3, 5, 71, 11, 48, 38, 70, 31, 37, 55, 46, 73, 62, 8, 36, 52, 29, 48, 100, 30, 50, 8

There are four 11's, 29's, 37's ; three 33's, 34's, 41's, 50's ; two 8's, 9's, 12's, 22's, 23's, 38's, 39's, 42's, 45's, 48's, 55's, 62's, 74's, 84's, 90's, 92's, 93's, 97's.

64 numbers have appeared.

I tried again (then 200 times).

39, 15, 2, 47, 56, 88, 77, 81, 37, 5, 78, 36, 100, 27, 88, 99, 73, 27, 80, 43, 30, 90, 88, 23, 22, 35, 49, 89, 56, 7, 68, 2, 57, 80, 16, 15, 100, 44, 11, 49, 38, 46, 5, 28, 6, 36, 55, 1, 89, 8, 83, 93, 30, 17, 14, 3, 78, 78, 17, 90, 59, 91, 38, 59, 20, 61, 87, 74, 61, 7, 71, 87, 2, 62, 68, 34, 99, 25, 63, 35, 11, 48, 66, 96, 45, 49, 60, 21, 71, 10, 100, 19, 25, 95, 67, 21, 60, 20, 67, 69, 34, 62, 24, 12, 69, 22, 59, 54, 4, 68, 75, 60, 4, 98, 97, 27, 98, 43, 19, 100, 56, 59, 30, 19, 4, 28, 55, 58, 52, 57, 22, 35, 81, 47, 49, 34, 44, 84, 38, 52, 55, 36, 5, 88, 27, 78, 73, 32, 76, 88, 94, 87, 72, 35, 89, 3, 60, 61, 17, 96, 4, 82, 87, 70, 64, 61, 8, 67, 13, 92, 67, 1, 21, 38, 63, 75, 27, 80, 91, 51, 66, 67, 77, 51, 63, 24, 55, 59, 42, 31, 25, 66, 85, 84, 75, 79, 1, 90, 43, 49

9, 18, 29, 33, 40, 41, 50, 53, 65, 86 have not appeared. Five 27's, 49's, 59's, 67's, 88's.

What does it mean ? I don't know how HyperCard generates numbers at (pseudo-)random.

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