Slashdot | True Random Number Generator Goes Online
Not a good idea, because the client (person downloading) has no easy way of knowing the numbers are random. A better idea would be to post lots of hexadecimal digits of an irrational numbers like pi. Such numbers ought to be random so long as you are not doing something involving the digits of pi. However, given the existence of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe digit extraction algorithm, I'm not sure just how "random" the hexadecimal digits of pi are anymore. Are their any other good (highly subjective) irrational numbers?
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