From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Possible truncation error
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On 27 Jun 2000 19:21:17 GMT, Hans-Bernhard Broeker
<broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:

>don't *ever* rely on the contents of the last (few) binary
>digits of floating point numbers.  They're allowed to behave totally
>unpredictably.  Don't try to understand the logic behind their
>behaviour --- there is none.

In that case, are they useful as extra entropy to inject into a
pseudorandom number generator every once in a while? :-)

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