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05/01/11 06:10
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#182136 - The key point is
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Michael Karas said:
So the search for randomness needs to be tempered with "what is good enough"

Indeed.

But the most common issue with posts on forums like this is the failure to realise that rand() and suchlike are only pseudo-random - which is not actually "random" at all...

List of 15 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Truly Random Number Generator            01/01/70 00:00      
   Latency Time Problem            01/01/70 00:00      
   this is bad            01/01/70 00:00      
      Don't think 1:1 mapping            01/01/70 00:00      
         understanding            01/01/70 00:00      
            Doesn't matter            01/01/70 00:00      
   Yeah, yeah!!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Way more than 3            01/01/70 00:00      
      baloney            01/01/70 00:00      
         So easy to make assumptions and crash and burn            01/01/70 00:00      
      Missing the point!            01/01/70 00:00      
   Its just soooo wrong            01/01/70 00:00      
      Randomness - NOT            01/01/70 00:00      
         The key point is            01/01/70 00:00      
            Johnson noise versus zener noise...            01/01/70 00:00      

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