From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,5891e7e61ca0dcd6
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-29 09:15:12 PST
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Path: 
 archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newspeer.radix.net!uunet!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp
From: Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com>
Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
X-Nntp-Posting-Host: e246420.msc.az.boeing.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Message-ID: <3C56D315.85771A75@boeing.com>
Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access)
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Organization: The Boeing Company
X-Accept-Language: en
References: <mailman.1012287362.30277.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 16:51:33 GMT
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit  (WinNT; U)
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19362
Date: 2002-01-29T16:51:33+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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