Re: Random Number Generation -----> Hardware or Software?

From: Nicholas O. Lindan (see_at_sig.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 18:54:14 GMT

Q: Is a Pseudo-Random Number Generator's output functionally
   equivalent to a random sequence?

A: PRNG: The next number in the sequence is knowable with sufficient
           knowledge. Not being able to predict the number is due to
           ignorance and has nothing to do with 'random'.

   Random: No amount of knowledge will allow prediction of the
           next number. 

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Nicholas O. Lindan, Cleveland, Ohio
Consulting Engineer:  Electronics; Informatics; Photonics.
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