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From: bagpiper@oxy.edu (Michael Paul Hunter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How do I get random #s?
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Date: 14 Feb 89 17:45:11 GMT
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In article <225800121@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
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>>I think it is.  If you really need extremely good random deviates
>>then you have a lot of research and hard work to do.
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>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.
>
Unfortunately it is hard to reproduce sequences of numbers using this
method, which makes modeling a bit hairy!!

				     Mike