From: "Chris Hollis-Locke" <chris@cjl1.demon.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:48:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <00a401c21bbd$4e2965e0$2248dec2@falken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0206240919480.17320-100000@athena>
Sam wrote...
>What's left on the screen after the galaxies collide is a *very*
>random assortment of colors. Suppose we take a quadrant sample of
>that and generate a number out of it. Would this work as a very
>simple random number generator?
[I presume that] the galaxy is seeded using random numbers.
So it would be an _elaborate_ pseudo-random number generator.
It would generate no more (true) randomness than the
original input.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 19:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-24 13:24 Sam
2002-06-24 15:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-24 19:48 ` Chris Hollis-Locke [this message]
2002-06-25 15:19 rog
2002-06-25 14:54 ` Sam
2002-06-25 17:17 ozan s. yigit
2002-06-25 17:42 presotto
2002-06-25 17:59 rog
2002-06-25 18:08 presotto
2002-06-25 19:59 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-25 20:23 presotto
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