17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
What about a beam of high intensity ionising radiation aimed at the detector? .... You presumably use the oddness of the count for your random bit in some
Simon Spero writes: .... predetermined time interval. External radiation can change, but not bias the parity. If the counter saturates, the counter may be biased towards one parity but the software can easily detect saturation presuming it gets the count. You can use the source in a smoke detector.