| ??? 10/05/04 15:10 Read: times |
#78803 - RE: seeding random number generator Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Yes, but this means you need more units (bits, bytes) of "biased" data to produce less units of the "unbiased" one. If the bias is 99%, you need 100 bits of the biased noise to produce 1 unbiased. If the stream/device you read the bits from is slow, it makes things even slower. True, but biased data is really not random because it is, to some extent, predictable. A source of random biased data has a random component which needs to be extracted in order to be useful. |
