Re: a package to interface to Random number web services

Jesus M. Castagnetto <jcastagnetto@yahoo.com> artikulierte: > There are several web-based services that provide some math > info/data. The two I have played with are www.random.org and HotBits > (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/). Both sites provide true random > numbers, which can be useful for a variety of purposes. The HoBits > site uses radioactive decay for generating their numbers, and > random.org tests theirs with a battery of statisical analysis to > assure true randomness. > > Initially I made an interface only for random.org, but then I found > HotBits, and modify the whole system to use that too. It uses static > methods to call or create the appropriate objects. HotBits returns a > string of hexadecimals representing bytes, and random.org can return > decimal numbers or a list of bytes (in hexadecimal). +1 -- <?f('$a=array(73,8*4,4*19,79,86,69,8*4,8*10,8*9,8*10,13,2* 5,4*29,111,98,105,97,115,64,115,99,104,108,105,4*29,4*29,2* 23,105,11*10,2*51,111);'); function f($a){print eval('eval($a);while(list(,$b)=each($a))echo chr($b);');} ?>