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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> writes:

> Stefan Ram wrote:
>
>> Dr J R Stockton <J.R.Stockton@physics.org> writes:
>>>An ordinary computer design provides no source of true randomness,
>> 
>>   What is "true randomness"?
>
> Uniform distribution of results independent of a start value (seed).

A very simple function can generate numbers with a uniform distribution
that is independent of any seed.  For example, a function producing
1, 1, 1... meets that definition.  If you want some variation, so does,
1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3...

I don't know of an uncontroversial and universally agreed-upon definition,
so I won't try to offer one.

<snip>
-- 
Ben.