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Aug 9, 2016 at 13:37 history edited Paula CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 9, 2016 at 12:54 comment added whuber Taken literally, the quotation is a trivial statement: it asserts that sampling on a computer requires a random number generator. $\phi$ can be understood to be any computer program, $U$ is the RNG, $\theta$ represents all non-random inputs to the program, and $Y$ is the output. Such statements, although without content, often are used to establish notation or terminology.
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