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6 Sep 2024 13:18:18 EDT (-0400)
  Re: REAL random numbers :D  
From: Darren New
Date: 5 Jan 2009 22:11:13
Message: <4962cbd1$1@news.povray.org>
Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> I liked better the one that had a camera pointed at half a dozen lava
>> lamps, and took the sha-1 of the webcam's output to generate random
>> streams. :-)
> 
> 	Yes, but at what *rate* can you produce random numbers with that method?

It is easily parallelizable. :-)

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
   There aren't any trees on Mars.


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