Re: [Beowulf] OT: public random numbers?

2011-08-15 Thread Steve Cousins
Hi David, Can you give us more information about what you are doing? I'm getting curious about what problem you are working with that requires these conditions. Steve > We have not discussed election results (votes per candidate), but those > are, ironically, really unsuitable for this, even

Re: [Beowulf] OT: public random numbers?

2011-08-15 Thread David Mathog
Leif Nixon wrote: > Have you looked at RFC3797? Not sure if it has any solutions for you, but it > at least discusses the same problems. Good reference, I was not aware of that. It gives the same sorts of sources for random numbers as we have come up with here: stock market, sports, lottery.

Re: [Beowulf] OT: public random numbers?

2011-08-15 Thread Robert G. Brown
On Sun, 14 Aug 2011, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > A moderately well known mathematician named Claude Shannon probably > analyzed it.. He collaborated with E. Thorpe on some other interesting > work on games. Shannon? Shannon? The name almost rings a Bell. For your information, I think he's a few b