6 Jul
2009
6 Jul
'09
9:26 a.m.
Andrew Faraday wrote:
Just an idea, but if the hardware random number generators use a jittery oscillator etc. Why not use [noise~] and [snapshot~] followed by some arithmetic and [int] you could build what I assume would be more random than the [random] box.
weird idea. especially, since [noise~] uses exactly the same pseudo-random algorithm as [snapshot~].
now normal pseudo-random-number algorithms calculate integer pseudo-random numbers. (just like [random]. [noise~] has added a bit of extra work to convert this integer into a nice floating-point value. of course you could add some extra work to convert this float into an int again :-)
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