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Generation of Random Numbers---Genuinely Random
One needs specialized hardware to generate true random numbers,
e.g.,
for successive decays (
) of a bunch of
's.
There are a lot of difficulties here.
Not only must you measure
in an unbiased fashion (impossible),
but also to find a random number with 32 bits of precision would require several separate
values.
Maybe each gives four bits of information and so eight measurements of
are needed to get one random number.
Geoffrey Fox
,
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
at Syracuse University,
gcf@npac.syr.edu