Can a computer give TRUE random numbers?

[SaltyNuts]

Saltynuts I posted your thread on another forum. It's almost 7 pages long now. It's actually a pretty cool thread.

Whoa, cool Mayne - what other forum?! I want to check it out!

 

[SaltyNuts]

Thanks so much guys. I've got some follow up questions, but they are better to be put into another more relevant thread. Thanks!

 

[WelshBloke]

62

 

[WelshBloke]

98 and a quarter

 

[WelshBloke]

746

 

[WelshBloke]

Tree fiddy

 

[WelshBloke]

About 7

 

[WelshBloke]

16 and a bit

 

[SaltyNuts]

??? Have you lost your mind WelshBloke?

 

[WelshBloke]

87 and two thirds of a haddock

 

[sm625]

Feed a series of pseudorandom numbers into your DAC and then connect your line out to your mic in. Then seed your random number generator based on the input level from the mic. Then you will get a decent approximation of a true random number generator. It has to be random because it is being modulated by white noise.

 

[SaltyNuts]

sm625, it would certainly APPEAR random, and probably be indistinguishable from true randomness. But I don't think it would be TRULY random because you could theoretically reverse engineer it (i.e., sort out what the white noise was, etc.). This was more of a theoretical question than "I need to generate random numbers" question. But much appreciated!

 

[slayer202]

milliseconds from last saltynuts thread * 69 is the best seed, fyi

 

[dullard]

milliseconds from last saltynuts thread * 69 is the best seed, fyi

Using 0 over and over again is not a good seed.

 

[nakedfrog]

87 and two thirds of a haddock

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