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From: glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: Why is Ada considered  "too specialized" for scientific use
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 00:30:51 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.lang.fortran Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote:
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> 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