cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) (01/14/90)
In article <25855@cup.portal.com>, ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes: > ...(lots of stuff about random number generators)... > > Wasn't it John von Neumann who said "anyone who thinks they know > how to build a random number generator doesn't understand the problem"? This is not only incorrect but misleading. He said that anyone who even thinks of using systematically generated numbers for random numbers is in a state of sin. -- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet, UUCP)