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To: Graystone who wrote (1687)	8/6/1999 11:32:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 2617

I was looking for a faster way to generate. the picoweigh process would be long time between numbers. There are oscillators with just about non repeating pattern. The are based on chaotic interactions of swinging suspended weights (Scientific American.) There are other geometric oscillators that promise some kind of unpredictable change. Quick measurement of some stream by a laser in some dimension and reference would give a nice random flux. The only reliable input it would seem involves some generation that is started by interaction with real world events. Like sun energy or line noise. One idea I had was to take magnetometer readings to the 100th of a nanotesla. Divide into some stream of prime numbers coming from a tape that is read when the input from the gamma register is an odd number three times and you take the remainder and mutiply by the prime when the register is even three times running. Add the syllables given by two women talking on the phone and multiply by the ascii value of their words and take that value for the next measurement period. Random as space and time. EC<:-}