p-adic chaos in random number generation: reference materials avail?

[Jim Windle]

"Numbers" Ebbinghaus et al Springer-Verlag ISBN 0-387-97497-0

Has an introduction to p-adic numbers that is about 20 pages and includes some references  though nothing really recent.

Jim Windle 
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On Mon, 9 Apr 2001 14:56:08    Phillip H. Zakas wrote:
>
>hi-
>
>continuing my braid group theory/crypto research (see my jan. thread)...am
>now working on problems of random number generation.  i've only recently
>begun to explore p-adics, in the context of applying p-adic chaos to random
>number generation. however i'm stretching the limits of my amateur
>mathematics background and would appreciate help in finding (what I can't
>seem to find myself): online and offline introduction to p-adics.
>
>cheers-
>phillip
>
>


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