[vpFREE] Re: Best Randomness Analogy Contest

 

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:
>We all no that VP machines use pseudo-random number generators. It is a common misconception that this makes them somehow less random. The opposite is closer to the truth. As long as they aren't malfunctioning or miss-programmed, pseudo-random is as random as you can get

Hardware random number generators are as random as you can get, pseudo-random number generation is predicatable:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/random

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