Subject: physical randomness [was: Re: CMU CL vs. CLISP? ]
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1999/07/29
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <7nog8b$6v5fh@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Pierre R. Mai <pmai@acm.org> wrote:
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| I did once hook up a scintilation-counter to a computer, and used this
| to generate random numbers for fun.
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Well, for something *completely* different, try http://lavarand.sgi.com/
(or http://lavarand.sgi.com/cgi-bin/how.cgi to see how it works -- also
hands you a new 128-byte random number each time you reload it!).


-Rob

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