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Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
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Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message news:<a35vj8$nd$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>...
> Christoph Grein <christoph.grein@eurocopter.com> wrote:
>  
> : I see your smiley on this, but seriously, you can get unpredictable random 
> : numbers only from physical devices like radioactive decay etc.
> 
> also from one of my friend's foolish but talented dogs
> that stumbles over the keyboards every now and then.
> Although, I'm afraid, that's only a fraction of numbers per second.
> 
> - georg

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Hugo