Reply to post: Re: How random is random?

Big Bang left us with a perfect random number generator

J.G.Harston Silver badge

Re: How random is random?

"These days it's common to use the thermal noise generated by a zener diode"

Exactly what I just logged in to say, you got there first. I remember doing back in the '80s with a Beeb. The alternative is a piezoelectric sensor dipped into a strong Brownian motion source.

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