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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
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Subject: Re: Re: Why no hardware random numbers?
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Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 14:35:54 EST
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> seems silly to you, check out the Table of 10,000 Random Digits in your
> Rubber Bible (you *do* have the CRC Handbook of Mathmatics, don't you?).

	Yes, I do have one.  Along with a half a dozen other mathematics
reference books that are as outdated in the stuff they present.  These
random number lists were put in reference books for the times when computers
barely existed and monte carlo was done by hand.

The last thing I would do in my monte carlo program would be to enter the
random numbers by hand from the CRC table.  (I admit to using the table
to get lists of seeds.)  The same goes for using disk to read a random
number list from.  The disk is a bit faster but not quite fast enough.