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Post #414203 by BeezleBug on Sun, Oct 19, 2008 9:46 AM

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Humankind has been concerned with random physical processes since pre-historic times. Examples are divination (cleromancy, reading messages in casting lots), the use of allotment in the Athenian democracy, and the frequent references to the casting of lots found in the Old Testament.