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Researchers use tiny magnetic swirls to generate true random numbers

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FearlessFly 9 Feb 9
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I wrote a computer game that I wanted to start up randomly, but the system always started with the same number booting up. My solution was to take a number from the jiffy clock and put that in the random number generator when the game booted.

It sounds like that was a sufficient solution for your wants/needs.
Few RNGs are actually 'random'.

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. . . a much cheaper (low bandwidth) option : 😮

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