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to: Tom Torfs
from: Kurt Kuzba
date: 1998-07-04 03:30:30
subject: Random number generation

TT> KK>    There are no truly random numbers
TT>   Aren't there ?
TT>   Oops... there goes chaos theory out the door ;-)
   Damn the Chaos theories... Full speed ahead!
   Any sufficiently subtle pattern is perceived as chaos.
   The universe is subtle beyond our imagining.
   Nothing ever happens by accident.
   This line is shorter. There IS a pattern, but it is unseen.
   Our ability to perceive does not approach the minimum
   requirements to understand the forces linking all things
   which determine what we term as chaotic or random for lack
   of that understanding.
   Good thing, too, or we would be bored silly. :)
   The RNG in most C RTLs will be sufficiently subtle and have
   a complex enough pattern to be indistinguishable from random
   to the casual observer, limited as we frail humans are.

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