Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution
| From: | Daniel Brown | Date: | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:44:39 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution | ||
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On Dec 12, 2007 9:00 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:
> At 3:04 PM -0500 12/10/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> > Unfortunately, because computers are logical, there's no such
> >thing (at least as of yet) as a truly random number being generated by
> >a machine.
> Unless the computer is tied to a peripheral that samples nature.
In which case the random number is not being generated by the
computer, but rather derived from data interpreted from nature.
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