LO-06 (randomness)

For this LO, I scoured the internet for randomness projects and I ultimately came upon this random script generator. Although the creation date and author is unknown, it is quite a robust software. After generating multiple scripts using a variation of around 30 inputs to generate the script, it was pretty clear that the results had enough variation to deem it to be sufficiently random. However, just how random is this script exactly? Assuming all 30 inputs each change a small part of the script then there could be theoretically be up to 30^30*the available words in the dictionary versions of scripts generated. This isn’t the case though, as after reading a couple scripts, I noticed that many themes and sentences were in fact being repurposed and reused, thus this program utilizes “pseudo” randomness.

https://www.plot-generator.org.uk/movie-script/

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