I was just trying to be funny!

That's what I thought at first. And you know what, the "true random number generator" at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits might be a joke too. I wonder what they would tell me if e-mailed them asking for a proof that their numbers are not pseudo-random.

I guess some people just can't tell jokes

Don't worry about it, your sense of humour is only surpassed by your bluntness :)

By the way, quantum mechanics is correct even if the source of the data is genuinely random; but, as you say, that in now way proves data is random.

The way I see it, the real problem is that quantum mechanics is correct even if the data is pseudo-random. In fact, I think quantum mechanics is correct even if the universe were just a huge collection of 9s (think Dilbert!)

Have fun,

Aurino

• 17 - doctordick - April 19, 2002 - 20:28 UTC