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From: Stephen Leake <stephen.a.leake.1@gsfc.nasa.gov>
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Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937)
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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