Random Numbers
Posted on December 7, 2004
Take a Chance: Science News Online, Dec. 4, 2004:
Now, physicists and computer scientists are figuring out ways to pull true randomness out of the physical world. One Web site, for instance, generates random numbers from the noise of a radio tuned between stations. And a commercial device put on the market last March harnesses nature’s ultimate source of randomness: quantum physics, which Albert Einstein famously described as God playing dice.
The website mentioned in the above quote is random.org, which serves up random numbers for free with a variety of APIs.
via Boing Boing
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