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Humberto Barreto <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:18:11 -0500
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von Neumann said:

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits 
is, of course, in a state of sin."

Source: "Various techniques used in connection with random digits", in 
US Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards, _Applied 
Mathematics Series 12, Monte Carlo Method_, 1951, pp. 36-38.


Following your rules, cut the last sentence of the last quotation or, if 
no space, cut the whole thing.


Humberto Barreto

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