Newsgroups: comp.ai.genetic
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news2.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!EU.net!uunet!in1.uu.net!hasler!root
From: root@hasler.uucp
Subject: Re: Random Number Generator Effects
Message-ID: <D8u79x.1Iw@hasler.uucp>
Organization: Dancing Horse Hill
In-Reply-To: JEThomas@ix.netcom.com's message of 17 May 1995 15:43:40 GMT
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 17:58:44 GMT
References: <3or1qt$3uq@tribune.usask.ca> <D8Hpqr.3sI@hasler.uucp> <3pa7sk$892@hawk.ee.port.ac.uk> <3pd5jc$gml@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com>
Lines: 23

Jonah Thomas writes:
(about hardware random number generators)
> Then an expert came by to tell us that it wasn't worth doing. 
> Other simultaneous operations on the chip might affect the results.

Yes, if the chip is poorly designed.

> Temperature might affect the results.

Temperature compensation is well understood and widely practiced by analog
designers.
 
> And since it wasn't repeatable you couldn't properly test it to find out the
> problems.
 
The noise performance of op amps is repeatable and testable: how is this
different? 

-- 

John Hasler uunet!hasler!root
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin USA
