Re: Truly Random Numbers On A Quantum Computer??

Richard Kettlewell  <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

A lot of people are pushing QRNGs of various kinds right now. I’ve yet
to be convinced, personally.

The QRNG may not in fact be random, but if they turn out not to be random
this indicates some sort of currently-unknown determinism in the
universe and that in itself is really interesting... far more interesting
than the mere quality of a random number generator.

One of the traditional high-entropy RNGs has been related to the decay
of a radioactive source since you can never tell when an atom in a sample
is going to decay.  If you COULD tell, it would be extremely useful and
worth a Nobel at the absolutely minimum.
--scott

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