Gojko I believe I have raised the philosophical question before - if a given set of pseudo-random numbers is indistinguishable from a set of "true random random numbers", is the distinction still useful ?
The best pseudo-random number generators do indeed produce sets of random numbers that are indistiguishable from sets of true random numbers. Paul Newton Gojko Bozic wrote: > If anybody interested, > From http://random.irb.hr/ > "The work on QRBG Service has been motivated by scientific necessity > (primarily of local scientific community) of running various simulations > (in cluster/Grid environments), whose results are often greatly affected by > quality (distribution, nondeterminism, entropy, etc.) of used random > numbers. Since true random numbers are impossible to generate with a finite > state machine (such as today's computers), scientists are forced to either > use specialized expensive hardware number generators, or, more frequently, > to content themselves with suboptimal solutions (like pseudo-random numbers > generators). .. > Regards,gojko > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
