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From: Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
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glen herrmannsfeldt expounded in news:hqte3r$et0$5@naig.caltech.edu:

> In comp.lang.fortran Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll>
> wrote: (snip)
>  
>> Just take any bad quality resistor, zenerdiode, or a number
>> of other electronic components, amplify the noise, and use it
>> with a bit of hardware to produce an endless stream of random
>> numbers. No computers needed.
> 
> Well, you need at least some digital logic to convert it
> into a number.  There is a paper by intel on their design for
> a random number generator based on such noise sources.
> 
> -- glen

Sampling speed is another critical factor. If sampling 
exceeds the bit flip rate, then it becomes less "random" ;-)

Warren