Re: random numbers
On Sun, 7 Dec 1997, Mark Baker wrote:
> In article <[🔎] Pine.OSF.3.95.971206230601.16969K-100000@newton.physics.arizona.edu>,
> lapeyre@newton.physics.arizona.edu (G John Lapeyre) writes:
>
> > Recipes generators and the linux system 'random', which is the longer
>
> Do you mean the library call random? No, that isn't brilliant, though if you
> try other unixes you'll probably find them worse. Apparently /dev/random is
> very good.
I heard the /dev/random files were seeded with real random data from
things like network IO interrupt calls and so forth. I've never seen any
distribution tests on the data though.
Jason
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