Re: Generating Random Numbers with Normal Distribution

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On Dec 12, 2007 9:00 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 3:04 PM -0500 12/10/07, Daniel Brown wrote:
> >     Unfortunately, because computers are logical, there's no such
> >thing (at least as of yet) as a truly random number being generated by
> >a machine.

> Unless the computer is tied to a peripheral that samples nature.

    In which case the random number is not being generated by the
computer, but rather derived from data interpreted from nature.

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