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From: "Chris Hollis-Locke" <chris@cjl1.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 20:48:49 +0100
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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.