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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. Re:Truly Random Number ? by Too+Much+Noise · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is. Google for Bell's inequality or the Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen paradoxfor a starting point. It does involve some more than skin-deep knowledge of quantum mechanics though.

    The bottom line is there's no theory of 'local hidden variables' that would make quantum mechanics a deterministic theory in the 'classical' sense.