is there some functionality in Maxima for creating "true" random numbers?
Subject: is there some functionality in Maxima for creating "true" random numbers?
From: Raymond Toy
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:19:24 -0700
I'm not aware of anything like that in Maxima. Not sure if you can do this
from Maxima itself, but from Lisp you can easily open /dev/urandom and read
a few words to get "true" randomness.
Ray
On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk>wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wonder whether Maxima has some easy access to some
> "true" random source. I am aware of the Internet resources,
> but I would also like to have something like that in Maxima.
> It just needs to be reasonable: I partially mistrust the Internet
> resources (what if everything is logged?).
> It would be nice if Maxima had some function for extracting some
> randomness out of the computer.
>
> Oliver
>
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