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Re: Better Randomness ? !

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy, sci.physics, alt.computer.security, comp.sys.mac.system, alt.privacy.anon-server
Subject Re: Better Randomness ? !
Date 2015-10-29 13:10 -0700
Message-ID <D257CB34.61F89%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References (5 earlier) <n0or5i$btl$1@dont-email.me> <Jeff-Relf.Me@Oct.27{10.41P.Seattle.2015}> <n0qmbc$8pt$1@pcls7.std.com> <edf94e286ab256dce6ced654ddf07a22@dizum.com> <291020151914153294%timstreater@greenbee.net>

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On 10/29/15, 12:14 PM, in article
291020151914153294%timstreater@greenbee.net, "Tim Streater"
<timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:

> In article <edf94e286ab256dce6ced654ddf07a22@dizum.com>, Nomen Nescio
> <nobody@dizum.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <n0qmbc$8pt$1@pcls7.std.com>
>> moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) wrote:
> 
>>> On the other hand, something based on truly random events, such as
>>> radioactive decay, is, well, truly random, if implemented properly.
>> 
>> There is nothing random about radioactive decay.
> 
> In terms of when an individual atom might decay there is. That is
> completely random.

Well, at least as far as we know. :)

> All you know is that the probability that it will
> decay in the next time-period of length equal to its half-life is just
> 0.5.



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                Re: Better Randomness ? ! Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2015-10-29 19:38 +0100
                Re: Better Randomness ? ! Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-10-29 19:14 +0000
                Re: Better Randomness ? ! Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-10-29 13:10 -0700
                Re: Better Randomness ? ! benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-10-30 05:45 -0400
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