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How to get a random number

Posted By: Art Grater
Date: Sunday, 30 July 2017, at 11:51 p.m.

In Response To: How to get a random number (Mike Clapsadle)

Is it possible for a kilogram of Polonium to emit zero alpha particles in a billion years? That would be a condition for it being truly random.

My real point is not that Polonium decay isn't random, but that sufficiently random is random enough.

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