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From: Richard Tierney<rt-opencores@c...>
Date: Mon Nov 21 10:14:08 CET 2005
Subject: [oc] random integer - VHDL
NonDigital@g... wrote:> (A friend of mine wrote a program to win at one of the Las Vegas
> games, and based on his results drove to Vegas and lost his money. He
> discovered that the fly in the ointment was allowing his PC to generate
> the random numbers for the game simulation, without any checking.)
I'm sorry, I can't resist this... :)
Your friend lost money at Las Vegas because a random number generator,
somewhere in his PC, produced numbers which weren't quite 'random'?
The reason your friend lost money is a little simpler. He needs some
more education, and a reality check.
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