[vcf-midatlantic] Random numbers
Evan Koblentz
evan at vcfed.org
Sat Apr 8 15:27:43 EDT 2017
>> There are multiple large books published about it. There are financial-industry-quality high-speed hardware random number generators on the market, used for generating crypto keys. Some are quite elaborate, using very fancy algorithms to de-bias the number
stream. Some use reverse-biased P-N junctions as their initial source, and some even use tiny bits of radioactive materials coupled to scintillation crystals and photodiodes. It's a fascinating field.
Generating true randomness is actually very, very hard.
Simple game for kids :)
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