Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!clyde!cuae2!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!k.cc.purdue.edu!l.cc.purdue.edu!cik From: cik@l.cc.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) Newsgroups: comp.arch 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 Article-I.D.: l.484 Posted: Sun Dec 21 06:27:18 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Dec-86 20:59:05 EST References: <7160@boring.mcvax.UUCP> <3830001@hpisof0.HP> Organization: Purdue University Statistics Department Lines: 11 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. -- (Usual disclaimer line.) Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907 Phone: (317)494-6054 (decvax,ihnp4,uiucdcs)!pur-ee!stat-l!cik (decwrl,hplabs,ucbvax)!purdue!stat-l!cik hrubin@l.cc.purdue.edu