Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/03/10/06:26:45
Ironically, the old Commodore 64 had possibly the best random generator:
an ANALOG white noise chip in the sound card, which could be tapped by a
program to obtain random numbers. Obviously for uniform randomness of the
quality you describe, an analog white noise generator filtered to digital
is what's needed. (Imagine RAND_MAX being arbitrarily large at the
randomizing stage, like a googol squared, only being truncated to
RAND_MAX later.)
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