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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
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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