by DJ Neawedde | 19th July 2007
Computers aren’t very good at random numbers. The problem is that they’re too predictable, and will eventually repeat themselves. If you call a random number in a line of code, then with the same seed value every time that program runs you will get the same order of numbers. Sometimes this is a problem, and sometimes it’s not.
In some academic applications it’s vital to get true random numbers, and there have been some interesting solutions. Now though, there is an online resource that can provide true random numbers by measuring the quantum process of photon emission. The Quantum Random Bit Generator Service (QRBGS) was developed by computer scientists from the Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia. ::Press Esc
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by DJ Neawedde | 19th July 2007
Computers aren’t very good at random numbers. The problem is that they’re too predictable, and will eventually repeat themselves. If you call a random number in a line of code, then with the same seed value every time that program runs you will get the same order of numbers. Sometimes this is a problem, and sometimes it’s not.
In some academic applications it’s vital to get true random numbers, and there have been some interesting solutions. Now though, there is an online resource that can provide true random numbers by measuring the quantum process of photon emission. The Quantum Random Bit Generator Service (QRBGS) was developed by computer scientists from the Ruder Boškovic Institute (RBI) in Zagreb, Croatia. ::Press Esc
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