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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do I get random #s?
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Date: 12 Feb 89 03:04:23 GMT
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In article <225800121@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
< I hooked an ADC converter and a hot resistor to my computer and xor'ed the 
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< results from it with rand(). This gives me about 10000 really random numbers
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< a second. It is not trivial to get REALLLY random numbers out of such
< a setup, but it can be done.

Why?  Why not use the pure output of your device?  (presuming it has the needed
dynamic range)
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