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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: How do I get random #s?
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Date: 7 Feb 89 16:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Feb  7 10:57:00 1989



>I think it is.  If you really need extremely good random deviates
>then you have a lot of research and hard work to do.

I finally got tired of non-random random numbers, so
I hooked an ADC converter and a hot resistor to my computer and xor'ed the 
results from it with rand(). This gives me about 10000 really random numbers
a second. It is not trivial to get REALLLY random numbers out of such
a setup, but it can be done.