Mike Raiford wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Mike Raiford wrote:
>>> http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
>>
>> 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. :-)
>>
> 
> I think beta decay is probably a bit more random.

Hard to say.  It's certainly less amusing to watch, and certainly harder to 
explain to a layman. :-)

 > After all, there is that whole uncertainty thing .. :)

What do you think drives the randomness of lava lamps? Pixies?

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
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