Random versus pseudo-random numbers

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From: Herman Rubin
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1990 15:51

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In article <25855@cup.portal.com>, ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:
> ...(lots of stuff about random number generators)...
> 
> Wasn't it John von Neumann who said "anyone who thinks they know
> how to build a random number generator doesn't understand the problem"?

This is not only incorrect but misleading.  He said that anyone who even
thinks of using systematically generated numbers for random numbers is in
a state of sin.
-- 
Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907
Phone: (317)494-6054
hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)

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Subject: Random versus pseudo-random numbers
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Date: 14 Jan 90 15:51:21 GMT
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