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New Day Cafe: Random Numbers [1]

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Date: 2024-07-08  

People have long sought external sources of randomness as the basis of random number generators. In this search for true randomness, they have looked practically everywhere for chaotic phenomena that can't be predicted or manipulated. They have listened to the racket of electrical storms, captured pictures of raindrops on glass, and played with the tiniest particles in the known Universe. The search is far from over…

The list of things people have turned to in the pursuit of random numbers is deliciously odd. One software engineer realised when out walking on a wet day that the raindrops falling on his glasses might provide a suitable source of randomness, so he simulated the patterns via a short piece of code as an experiment. Someone else tried capturing the activity of bubbles in their fish tank as a basis for random number generation. Another approach relied on the unpredictable behaviour of a kitten, its movements having been captured on a webcam.”

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