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Is it within the scope of this task to use libraries and language features which provide random numbers derived from both hardware and software sources, or is the intent here to show a more low-level access to the underlying operating system itself? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 14:03, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
:I would say yes, if there is some hardware involved, so that the random numbers are not 100% "pseudo". The stress should be on random numbers. Just showing how to read from an arbitrary device is perhaps not very interesting. --[[User:Abu|Abu]] 14:25, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
:: To be certain, the task's fundamental drive is to obtain numbers which are ''not'' deterministically-generated, even with an unknown seed? --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 14:44, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
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