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From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: random number generator in hardware (XOR scheme)
Message-ID: <484@l.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Sun, 21-Dec-86 06:27:18 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 21 06:27:18 1986
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Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department
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Summary: f XOR does not care about similarity of drifts


If the streams are independent, the difference between the probability
of 0 and the probability of 1 is the product of the differences in
the various streams.
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