--- title: Quasirandomness in Nature author: George Mandis date: 2011-07-18 tags: post --- Truthfully, my math is far too shitty to fully appreciate this post about observing an apparent pattern in the way raindrops collected on a patio table. However, I did learn a little bit about other kinds of randomness. I was already aware of [pseudorandomness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandomness), as that's the kind I run into and use on a regular basis, but I had never heard the term [quasirandomness](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-discrepancy_sequence) before this post. The concept isn't foreign or strange — I just like the term. From [Brian Hayes' personal blog](http://bit-player.org): >In selecting quasirandom points the aim is not equiprobability or independence but rather equidistribution: spraying the points as uniformly as possible across the area of the square He goes into much more depth here in [his article on American Scientist](http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2011/4/quasirandom-ramblings). via [waxy](http://waxy.org)