"Radioactive" random number generator

["Thomas O'Brien" <TJO@nrc.gov>]

Radsafers-

Here's an interesting web site out of Switzerland for those interested in "genuine" random numbers.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits

It is an Internet resource that brings genuine random numbers, generated by a process fundamentally governed by the
inherent uncertainty in the quantum mechanical laws of nature, directly to your computer in a variety of forms. The numbers are generated by timing successive pairs of radioactive decays detected by a Geiger-Müller tube interfaced to a computer.

Enjoy-

Tom O'Brien
 
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