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Re: Simple random number generator?
Posted:
Dec 16, 2012 2:03 PM
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In sci.math message <rubrum-1B190E.20064214122012@news.albasani.net>,
Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:06:42, Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> posted:
>In article <OjcVDZPLshyQFw5g@invalid.uk.co.demon.merlyn.invalid>,
> Dr J R Stockton <reply1250@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
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>> In sci.math message <rubrum-471E53.18462311122012@news.albasani.net>,
>> Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:46:23, Michael Press <rubrum@pacbell.net> posted:
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>> >I do not see how quantum effects can be used to generate
>> >random sequences.
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>> Radioactive decay is due to quantum effects, and there is a fixed
>> probability for each atom to decay in the next time interval.
>
>From what does the unpredictability of radioactive decay arise?
The laws of quantum physics. Read Heisenberg. Alas, it is no longer
possible to hear him directly, as I have done.
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