From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: a randomize function for DJGPP?
Date: 10 Mar 1997 06:55:24 GMT
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Ironically, the old Commodore 64 had possibly the best random generator:
an ANALOG white noise chip in the sound card, which could be tapped by a
program to obtain random numbers. Obviously for uniform randomness of the
quality you describe, an analog white noise generator filtered to digital
is what's needed. (Imagine RAND_MAX being arbitrarily large at the
randomizing stage, like  a googol squared, only being truncated to
RAND_MAX later.)


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Paul Derbyshire ao950 AT freenet DOT carleton DOT ca, http://chat.carleton.ca/~pderbysh