Newsgroups: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!rdb
From: rdb@scs.carleton.ca (Robert D. Black)
Subject: Chaotic Pseudo-random Number Generators
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.181619.11029@cunews.carleton.ca>
Followup-To: rdb@scs.carleton.ca
Keywords: chaos, randomness
Sender: rdb@scs.carleton.ca
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Distribution: comp.theory.dynamic-sys
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1991 18:16:19 GMT

Does anyone know of chaotic dynamical systems being used to generate
random/pseudo-random numbers?  For example, it seems the chaotic 
logistic map 4x(1-x) could be used to generate pseudo-random numbers
in the range 0..1.


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Robert Black                               rdb@scs.carleton.ca
School of Computer Science
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada