If I made a program, and I wanted a random number.
I know it's not compleatly possible, since it takes numbers out of the ram.
Although there must be worse and better ways to do this.
What are the better ways do do it.
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Jump to PostI love this topic. Random number generation is not only well discussed but then you have dozens of different kinds of random.
Are you aware of TRNGs and PRNGs?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_random_number_generatorsOne of my …
Jump to PostI helped a guy create a random number generator that kept track of keypress and mouse move/click times and some other "sorta kinda mostly might as well be random" stuff. He was gonna keep going with the project and do a bunch of statistical tests to see if it was …
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1. Smart guy. 2. I see what you did there.
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I think I should note the old way next.
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