Quotes

[steve_bank]

Who said mathematicians have no sense of humor.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
-JOHN VON NEUMANN (1951)

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Who said mathematicians have no sense of humor.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
-JOHN VON NEUMANN (1951)

Back then I would agree. But so long as you do not need cryptographically secure random digits there are plenty of compute-heavy means of generating random numbers.

 

[Bomb#20]

Who said mathematicians have no sense of humor.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.
-JOHN VON NEUMANN (1951)

Of course it's okay to use arithmetical methods -- "random number generation is too important to be left to chance."