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Subject: Re: Card game deck but with trumps suit for tarot "divination" Is
 there a better way...
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I've felt a bit guilty not posting a lot about how to choose a starting see=
d for a PRNG.  One of the best ways is to use RANDOM.org: https://www.rando=
m.org/ This uses atmospheric noise collected by radios (in multiple locatio=
ns) listening on frequencies not used locally.

If you only need a few bits--at most several thousand per second--you can j=
ust use the site to provide true random numbers selected from various distr=
ibutions. One example given is how to select 52 (cards) without replacement=
.  In other words provide a shuffled bridge deck.  Change to 84 for tarot, =
and as long as you don't need hundreds of deals per second you should be ok=
ay.