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From: mdr@reed.UUCP (Mike Rutenberg)
Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics,sci.crypt,sci.math.stat
Subject: Do you use RANDOM NUMBERS?
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 20:43:29 EST
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How do people currently use RANDOM NUMBERS?  Simulations?  Anything else?

How do you generate them?

Do you think your results would benefit from using
truly random numbers rather than pseudo-random stuff?
Is it of enough interest to justify some time and effort?

I must say that I don't really understand how people actually use random
numbers, and if people really care how random they are.  Is it technically
not an important issue, that people just don't think about it, or that
getting really random numbers to the application is just too difficult?

Mike Rutenberg
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