Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/24/21:47:38
From: | Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: real random numbers
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Date: | Tue, 24 Mar 1998 18:21:35 -0800
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Organization: | Alcyone Systems
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Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> Are you kidding! The noise generated in a diode junction IS NOISE and
> is
> generated by the combination of electrones, if you can predict it ...
> man
> you'll gain the next 100 Nobel prices ;-))). Using a diode junction
> (amplifying
> the signal to the A/D range) and taking A/D samples is an EXCELENT way
> to
> generate real ramdom values.
It's probably a good way to get pretty darn random numbers, but it is
almost _certainly_ not a good way to get random, _uniformly-distributed_
numbers.
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Erik Max Francis, &tSftDotIotE / mailto:max AT alcyone DOT com
Alcyone Systems / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
San Jose, California, United States / icbm:+37.20.07/-121.53.38
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