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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news
  2. From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.programming
  4. Subject: Re: Any simple Random Number generators?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug14.023921.13775@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 14 Aug 92 02:39:21 GMT
  7. References: <13AUG199218224504@judy.uh.edu>
  8. Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
  9. Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
  10. Organization: University of Arizona
  11. Lines: 10
  12. In-Reply-To: cscc13@judy.uh.edu (NAVEED IQBAL)
  13.  
  14. In article <13AUG199218224504@judy.uh.edu>, cscc13@judy (NAVEED IQBAL) writes:
  15. >I want to know how random numbers are generated.
  16.  
  17. Well, you could hook up an A/D converter to a Geiger counter.
  18.  
  19. You could also read chapter 3 of Don Knuth's _Art of Computer
  20. Programming_.
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