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Perry E. Metzger (perry@piermont.com)
Tue, 07 Jul 1998 13:23:21 -0400
"William H. Geiger III" writes:
> I would have to see the math and some test data before I would feel
> comfortable with this. There seems to be a big difference between using
> the time between to hit to generate X bits and taking the 2 deltas between
> 3 hits and then generating one bit of data from that.
My big question is this: are there tools for taking a set of random
numbers dispersed according to a non-uniform distribution, like a
poisson or normal distribution, and turning them into a set of random
numbers over a uniform distribution? Given such tools, timing
intervals between the geiger counter ticks is probably safe --
otherwise, it may skew the results subtly.
.pm
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:20:10 ADT