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Board Gambling discussion
Re: How Truly Random is Random
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deisik
on 03/12/2019, 14:45:33 UTC
It may worth adding that usually in computer science pseudo-random numbers are generated. Truly random (?) values are only to be found in nature. And pseudo-randomness may, strangely(?), be closer to what you expect in statistics

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I'm not very familiar with the gory details of how pseudo-random numbers are generated, but as far as I know, the devices designed for this purpose are using some natural, stochastic processes. In other words, you can't actually say that hardware random number generators are not "natural" (pardon the double negative) as they are what can be found in nature and as random as nature itself goes and does