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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs)
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs) |
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Fri, 22 Oct 2021 20:57:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Jean Louis wrote:
> For people interested, manual explains about randomity:
> (info "(elisp) Random Numbers")
>
> How I understand it, than it may be that neither `pwgen' is
> generating truly random numbers.
Truly random numbers, as you say, cannot be generated since
computers are deterministic by nature and definition, and
that's a good thing.
Maybe quantum computers can do it?
For practical purposes it should be random enough as it is,
I think.
Or that's my superficial understanding of it anyway ...
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- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), (continued)
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Michael Heerdegen, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Yuri Khan, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/24
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/24
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- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Jean Louis, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/22
- Re: Noob dumb question (extending emacs), Emanuel Berg, 2021/10/21
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