29th June 2009, 12:26 AM
If you're looking for 3's, you'll find them. If you're looking for 4's, you'll find them too. Humans are great at finding patterns, including where no meaning exists to them.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)