Thanks Ole. You bring up a good point. I have taken it into
consideration before selecting the randomness sources. Lottery results
are archived for obvious reasons. It turns out the US Treasury
department makes the archive since 1993 available.
The archives are available at the following locations for time-delayed
verifiability:
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/player/p/results/resultsHistory/resultsHistoryAction.do
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
http://www.megamillions.com/winningpicks/last_25.asp
best,
Lakshminath
On 7/4/2007 11:42 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
I was under the impression that the use of WSJ data was adopted
because it is easily verifiable and reproducable, after all there
exists a PRINTED copy of the newspaper for any given day. I am not
sure you could "reproduce" the national debt (for example) at a given
point in time if someone disputed the result and wanted to run the
algorithm themselves.
Ole
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