From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
Date: 30 Jan 2002 11:21:13 -0500
Date: 2002-01-30T16:25:31+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uaduv3j46.fsf@gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4519e058.0201291434.1e362a5f@posting.google.com
dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) writes:
> Jeffrey Carter <jeffrey.carter@boeing.com> wrote in message
> news:<3C56D315.85771A75@boeing.com>...
>
> > SGI has a system that uses digital images of lava lamps to generate
> > random numbers. A quick Google search should find suitable references.
>
> This seemed to silly to be true, so I tried it. Its true.
> ( http://www.yak.net/fqa/267.html )
>
> ...{shakes head sadly}
Hmm. Did you actually click on the LAVARAND link? That timed out for
me. So this is still an uban legend in my book.
--
-- Stephe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-30 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-29 6:55 Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937) Christoph Grein
2002-01-29 11:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2002-01-29 15:27 ` HP
2002-01-29 16:51 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-29 22:34 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-30 16:21 ` Stephen Leake [this message]
2002-01-30 22:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-30 13:00 ` HP
2002-01-30 18:24 ` Ted Dennison
2002-01-30 23:04 ` Hugo Pfoertner
2002-01-31 8:15 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-02-01 3:42 ` Adrian Hoe
[not found] <200201281013.LAA04729@bulgaria.otn.eurocopter.de>
2002-01-28 20:00 ` Christoph & Ursula Grein
2002-01-28 22:21 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-01-28 23:34 ` Hugo Pfoertner
2002-01-29 1:54 ` Adrian Hoe
2002-01-29 0:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-01-29 11:24 ` HP
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2002-01-28 8:43 Adrian Hoe
2002-01-31 6:43 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-01-31 8:22 ` Bobby D. Bryant
2002-02-02 2:28 ` Adrian Hoe
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