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From: rog@vitanuova.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:19:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020625151353.4093B19A2C@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)

> 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?

sounds like a fairly elaborate random number generator to me!

however, i guess this isn't so far removed from Wolfram using a
cellular automaton as the basis for the pseudo random number
generation in mathematica...

  rog.



             reply	other threads:[~2002-06-25 15:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-25 15:19 rog [this message]
2002-06-25 14:54 ` Sam
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2002-06-25 20:23 presotto
2002-06-25 18:08 presotto
2002-06-25 19:59 ` Dan Cross
2002-06-25 17:59 rog
2002-06-25 17:42 presotto
2002-06-25 17:17 ozan s. yigit
2002-06-24 13:24 Sam
2002-06-24 15:28 ` andrey mirtchovski
2002-06-24 19:48 ` Chris Hollis-Locke

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