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From: presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Interesting research possibility?
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Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 13:42:44 -0400
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On Tue Jun 25 11:14:24 EDT 2002, rog@vitanuova.com 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?
>
> 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.
>

I still prefer the lava lamp.

Also, it looks like T23's have a reasonable thermal noise
hardware random number generator that I'll try to use.  I
haven't run it against any of the RNG tests yet.