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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?
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Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 18:23:10 +0100
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On Mon, 07 Feb 2011 11:14:29 -0500, Robert A Duff wrote:

> "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> writes:
> 
>> Wrong. You might have an implementation of Random backed by the hardware in
>> which case Random would have no internal state whatsoever.
> 
> I don't think a truly random implementation of
> Ada.Numerics. ... .Random would be correct,
> because you're allowed to reset the state to a
> previously-saved state, and replay they exact same sequence
> of pseudo-random numbers.
> 
> It might be useful to have a truly-random function, but
> it would have to be a different one.

You are right.

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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