D Hilberg wrote:

Anyone who still uses numerical methods to generate random numbers is
living in a state of sin.

(according to John von Neuman)

- D Hilberg

(Have you tried measuring the decay of a radioactive element?)


And you measure the decay of radioactive elements from your living room how?

pRNG algorithms have progressed greatly since von Neumann's time. Excel
2003's RAND(), which is a vast improvement, is still two decades out of
date. The Mersenne Twister is quite a good pRNG

http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.j...at/MT/emt.html
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.j...S/FORTRAN/fort...
http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/...neTwister.html

which is implemented in the freeware NtRand

http://www.numtech.com/NtRand/

Jerry