Random algorithm
Mark Smith
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Tue Nov 11 21:34:33 EST 2008
Interestingly, on OS X and Linux, you can read from "/dev/random" and
get crypto-quality random numbers:
put "/dev/random" into tFile
open file tFile for binary read
read from file tFile for 1000 uint4
put it into tRandNums
close file tFile
will get you a comma delimited list of 1000 numbers bewteen 0 and 2 ^
32.
I can't find anything similar on Windows, but maybe one of Ken's
crafty VB scripts can get at the relevant OS API call "CryptGenRandom".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urandom
Best,
Mark
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