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Quantum Random Numbers For Download

Posted by timothy on from the 404*pi-404^e-404mod401 dept.

PSUdaemon writes "The University of Geneva has produced a website that allows you to download truly random numbers generated from an Optical quantum random number generator. They will also be releasing a client API that you can use directly in your codes to download random numbers."

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  1. Uh-oh by bobthemonkey13 · · Score: 4, Funny

    In other news, the Slashdot effect causes a 500-lightyear radius of spacetime to disappear into an Infinite Improbability Field.

  2. w00t! by pradeepe · · Score: 1, Funny

    now i can finally get decent approximations for my future physics grades!

  3. Pffft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    C:\>echo %random%

  4. So how many slashdotters will it take... by kenthorvath · · Score: 1, Funny

    So how many slashdotters will it take to submit a request for 1000 numbers between 0 and 1 before it generates the binary code for Windows? What about the source code?

  5. Re:Not bad, not bad... by MerlynEmrys67 · · Score: 2, Funny
    of course I just asked for 1000 random numbers between 1-100. I got 1000 50's, I wonder how many bits/sec they can generate - and what happens if they have to "reuse" a little bit of that quantum state ???

    Inquiring minds want to know

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  6. How to listen to real random noise. by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Funny

    generate a few screens of random numbers, use a range of 0-255 and generate 1000 numbers.

    open up a text editor and paste the results in, repeat the process several times till you have a nice big file of random numbers. Then simply

    %> cat randomnumbers.txt /dev/dsp

    its an interesting noise , i think you will agree ...

    nick ...

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  7. Re:Not bad, not bad... by minusthink · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah! this works great!

    Array
    (
    [0] => 134
    )

    Looks pretty random to my eye.

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  8. okay that was freaky... by Shaheen · · Score: 3, Funny

    i asked for one random number between 0 and 10000 and i got back my base rate salary.

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