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From: zdenek@heathcliff.columbia.edu (Zdenek Radouch)
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Subject: Re: Re: Minor nit on psi experiment.
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Date: Mon, 10-Nov-86 18:36:36 EST
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In article <979@cbmvax.cbmvax.commodore.COM> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.COM (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>I used something related to this for a design project in an EE class...
>						....I built the dice with
>a pair of modulo 6 counters that were driven by a high speed clock (typical
>speed of 500KHz).  The high speed clock's frequency was modulated by an
>unrelated and very slow clock, with a period of several seconds....
>						....This randomness was based
>on the inability of a human to press the switch at exactly random intervals...

Just a quick question. Was the slow clock modulation result of some
analysis or just a means to make the "random" numbers more random?

zdenek

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