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6 Sep 2024 13:20:19 EDT (-0400)
  Re: REAL random numbers :D  
From: Darren New
Date: 6 Jan 2009 13:54:42
Message: <4963a8f2$1@news.povray.org>
Mike Raiford wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
> 
>>
>> What do you think drives the randomness of lava lamps? Pixies?
>>
> 
> Fluid Dynamics? Heat?

And ... those in turn are caused by ... ?

Granted, individual atom decay is less likely to exhibit statistical 
groupings. And you rarely have your radioactive source get too cold to be 
random. :-)

-- 
   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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