From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:51:33 GMT
Date: 2002-01-29T16:51:33+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C56D315.85771A75@boeing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1012287362.30277.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Christoph Grein wrote:
>
> > A random number generator that produces the prescribed result doesn't
> > sound very good ;-)
>
> I see your smiley on this, but seriously, you can get unpredictable random
> numbers only from physical devices like radioactive decay etc.
SGI has a system that uses digital images of lava lamps to generate
random numbers. A quick Google search should find suitable references.
--
Jeffrey Carter
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-29 6:55 Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937) Christoph Grein
2002-01-29 11:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-29 15:27 ` HP
2002-01-29 16:51 ` Jeffrey Carter [this message]
2002-01-29 22:34 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-30 16:21 ` Stephen Leake
2002-01-30 22:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-30 13:00 ` HP
2002-01-30 18:24 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-30 23:04 ` Hugo Pfoertner
2002-01-31 8:15 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-02-01 3:42 ` Adrian Hoe
[not found] <200201281013.LAA04729@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de>
2002-01-28 20:00 ` Christoph & Ursula Grein
2002-01-28 22:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-28 23:34 ` Hugo Pfoertner
2002-01-29 1:54 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-01-29 0:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-29 11:24 ` HP
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2002-01-28 8:43 Adrian Hoe
2002-01-31 6:43 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-01-31 8:22 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-02-02 2:28 ` Adrian Hoe
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