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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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To: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:47:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: real random numbers
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Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com> wrote:

> 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.

Don't be so sure, this kind of noise have a very plain spectrum in the audio 
range. In fact the generators of noise to calibrate acustic systems needs it.

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