Random numbers
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Great comments ! I needed a bunch of random numbers once and I grabbed a WinAES wrapper class from here and used it. It worked out pretty well.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Jörgen Andersson wrote:
But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers?
Using a search engine you should be able to find a hardware number generator that uses Cesium-137 or Potassium-40. The hardware coming out of Switzerland seems expensive at around €900. Best Wishes, -David Delaune
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
And this book is published in 1955. I wonder what computer they used.
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
My late Mum (a statistician) had a book of random numbers in the living room bookshelf. It was one of the most used books when I was a kid (if only because it was regularly taken out to show friends what a weirdo Mum was! :laugh: ;) ) It was a hardcover book, possibly the same as this one (same layout of the random numbers) but I think it just got put in a skip when she downsized in the 1980s. And this hardcover version is selling at $495 !! :doh: X|
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And this book is published in 1955. I wonder what computer they used.
They didn't, they used an electronic roulette wheel and fed the numbers into an IBM punch during May-June 1947. It's in the introduction to the book.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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i was thinking you could download it in batches. They have a bulk generator.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
Yes, but with a quota, if you want more you have to pay. And it costs a bit more than I want to pay just to test an idea I have.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Great comments ! I needed a bunch of random numbers once and I grabbed a WinAES wrapper class from here and used it. It worked out pretty well.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
Seems like the way to go for me. Everything truly random costs money, and I'm just testing something to disprove an idea I had.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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So I needed a function for creating a million random numbers, so I could test some statistic functions I'm building. But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers? On Amazon of course! A Million Random Digits With 100, 000 Normal Deviates: Rand Corporation: 9780029257906: Amazon.com: Books[^] Do read the comments! some are hilarious.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
There should be a low-cost way of generating random numbers.
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There should be a low-cost way of generating random numbers.
Raspberry pi's come with a hardware RNG. I don't think they get much cheaper than that. See here: [Raspberry Pi internal hardware random number generator - A study of entropy](https://sites.google.com/site/astudyofentropy/project-definition/raspberry-pi-internal-hardware-random-number-generator)