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From: Jeff-Relf.Me <@.>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:28:21 -0700 (Seattle)
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Subject: QueryPerformanceCounter() -- Better Randomness.
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Replying to me, you (Michael_Moroney) wrote:
> > Seriously, _How_ could thermo/quantum randomness be
> > better than what I've got, on my i7_4790s/Windows_8 PC ? !
> > How ? !
> 
> Any computer algorithm is just pseudorandomness, 
> "ignorance" as you put it.  
> 
> Dig deep enough into the algorithm and you can _predict_ the next
> value, although doing so can be extremely difficult.
> 
> On the other hand, something based on truly random events, such as 
> radioactive decay, is, well, truly random, if implemented properly.

Every second, a 64 bit counter on my 4 GigaHz PC,
QueryPerformanceCounter(), goes up by another 4 billion.

Use the low bits of that counter to seed srand(),
and you have a nice array of PSEUDO_random numbers;
no one could predict what's in the array.

How, pray tell, would that not be good enough ?