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to: ERIK WARMELINK
from: DARIN CROSSLAND
date: 1997-05-13 04:32:00
subject: Re: Throw of dice

 EW> Most PCs have an almost perfect random number generating peripheral
 EW> device. It is known as "user". :-) Let it type a few keystrokes (or
 EW> less boring for it: let it play a game) and use (the least significant
 EW> bits of) the time between its keystrokes as random numbers. 
 EW> Bye,
Hmmm...  Not a bad idea...  But what a pain that would be to program in C++!
Would be pretty easy to do in asm'blr...  Justa couple routines.... :)  I
rather like that idea...  Thanks!  (Keystroke/Clock)*(Interval-Time)=RandLSD.
:)
Thanks again!!!
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