Hi Ladislav,
When playing with Monte Carlo for a class a few years back I was content
to periodically reseed Rebols RNG with a very random number.
(when I just now checked, the HotBits site was up but not serving numbers)
comment{
seed the RNG with a radioactive decay induced non-pesudo-random number if
connected to the net(and HotBits server up) or with the current time
otherwise
}
random/seed either
all [ not error? try[
rnd-pg: read
http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Hotbits/?fmt=hex&nbytes=2]
parse rnd-pg [thru <pre> "^/" copy seed to "^/"]
]
[make integer! make binary! seed]
[now]
On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Ladislav Mecir wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> do you know how much suitable are Rebol random numbers for a Monte Carlo
> simulation? (I need more than one million reasonably random numbers). Would
> you suggest to use /SECURE for this?
>
> TIA
> Ladislav
>
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