[ILUG] random number generation

[paul at clubi.ie]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, paul at clubi.ie wrote:

> Just use each pile (or successive 'throws' of the same pile) as a 
> digits of increasing significance until you have a random number of 
> the desired order.

Also you don't need programming tools:

dd if=/dev/urandom count=X | od -d

(ignore the first column of the output - it's obviously not random)

regards,
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