How to make your own number generator

Posted by bob on Nov 17, 2016 5:29 AM EDT
Opensource.com; By Seth Kenlon
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It sometimes surprises people that random number generation is a classically famous problem in computer science, because it seems like it should be so easy; just pick a number. And yet it's hard to get a computer to be random. Many Linux users have some awareness of the /dev/random and /dev/urandom devices, and most have some awareness that technically, the numbers generated there are not truly, scientifically random.

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