From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: real random numbers
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 08:28:19 -0800
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Guillaume BETOUS wrote:

> If anyone could tell me how to get REAL random generated numbers under
> djgpp ... and/or explain me how it works ! I wonder for a long time
> how
> a computer can generate random numbers

It doesn't.  There's no such thing as an algorithmically generated
randon number, because it was always generated by an algorithm.

Pseudorandom number sequences strive to be rather random, but ultimately
they are generated by an algorithm and thus are 100% predictable.  The
goal is to find a sequence that's very hard to predict.

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