FCM 159 - demotext2.txt

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park (either the book or the movie, but the movie is more fun in my opinion) has a good (but simplified) discussion on Chaos Theory where Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum) describes the direction that a drop of water, running across the hand of Doctor Ellie Sattler (played by Laura Dern) will take. The same can be said about a coin striking the floor or the palm of your hand. It can skew the result just enough to make it more random.

Now let's create a VERY simple Python program to check this out. We will use the numpy library for the random number generator, rather than the built-in Python random number generator. While both are pretty much the same thing, but the numpy library has some additional options that make it a better choice for future work. It's not good enough for serious cryptography use, but for what we need, it's fine. Because of the f-string formatting, you will need to use Python 3.7 or greater.