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Communications of the ACM

Pure randomness extracted from two poor sources

Don Monroe

Published Dec 20, 2016• 3 citations
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Abstract

Developments from several disparate areas of computer science provide "a huge jump, both technically and also quantitatively."
DOI
10.1145/3014386

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