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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <4077FE63.4010602 at cronyx.ru>, Roman Kurakin writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>>How about we recognize that different users needs different levels of
>>randomness ?
>>
>>Couldn't we provide at three levels of random bits:
>>
>>	1. "Random enough for games"
>>
>>	2. "Random enough for money"
>>
>>	3. "Random enough for lives"
>>
>How about computations?

Well, depends what kind of computations you are talking about obviously.

I specifically didn't list that because I have seen so many examples
of monte carlo analysis done with rand() that I could cry.  People
who do stochastic simulation should think about randomization not just
belive in some random (pun intended) default.

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