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Re: [microsound] random numbers WAS:oval armani



derek:

"How does acomputer, which is designed to store and process numbers accurately and reproducably, obtain seemingly unpredictable random numbers? One way is to sample an external random process such as thermal noise, but this requires additional hardware."

(Computer Music, Charles Dodge and Thomas A. Jerse, 1985)

wasn't that kind of thing already built into the commodore 64? in 1983? p.