Their is no such thing as random without context.

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Elizabeth Buie <[email protected]> wrote:

> Jared wrote:
>
> >It is all about context. And in many, many contexts, alphabetical is
> >random.
>
> Some people may be objecting to the characterization of alphabetical as
> random because they see "random" as "unpredictable" -- which alphabetical
> certainly is not... as long as you know the name of what you are looking
> for.  That is why I said it was arbitrary, which I think avoids the "random
> = unpredictable" problem.
>
> Elizabeth
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