Is Online Roulette Random?
I’ve been playing roulette in casinos for years now - I’m not sure why I enjoy it so much but probably because it’s not as intense as some of the other casino games and it seems to encapsulate the fun and glamour of the places. Recently my friend was actually surprised that I play roulette on the internet as he asked me is online roulette random?
Well for a start, it can never be truly, completely random online - that is because the casino wheel and the game is controlled by a computer program and all the events and spins are generated by a deterministic device called a computer. Computers have always had a big problem with generating random - the problem is that you have to tell a computer exactly how to generate a random anything. The simple fact that you have to instruct the computer how to generate the random event means that it can never be completely random. A spin on a roulette wheel is subject to a myriad different events which can affect the result -
- The speed at which a croupier spins the roulette wheel
- The speed at which a croupier spins the ball
- Both the above partly determine the distance the ball spins
- the starting point of the wheel
- The angle the croupier spins the ball into play
These are just a very small proportion of the factors that can affect the final landing position of the ball - there are many thousands of others. If you asked a croupier to spin a certain number on purpose he couldn’t without some outside intervention - there are simply too many variables. To achieve this level of random number generation on a computer for online game is extremely difficult - there are of course ways of linking a computer program with some sort of external advice like a microphone, light meters or anything connected to the physical world which can break the co [Read more →]
