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yma o hyd4/05/2009 11:45:57 am PDT

re: #106 gmsc

Actually, dice and coins are better random number generators than computers. Dice and coins are True Random Number Generators (TRNGs), as opposed to most computers, which use Pseudo-Random Number Generators (PRNGs). Although there are specially-built computers that can be used as TRNGs.

A more detailed discussion of the difference can be found at Random.org.

Thanks - duly hearted, and updinged!

So FDR wasn’t that weird when he decided the daily exchange rate of the $/gold by flipping a coin …