Here's a question from my other thread (about genetic algorithms) that I've taken the liberty of reposting in order to reach a wider audience (because this doesn't require any knowledge of genetic ...
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RANDOMNESS IS A valuable commodity. Computer models of complex systems ranging from the weather to the stockmarket are voracious consumers of random numbers. Cryptography, too, relies heavily on ...