I bought a set of Dungeons and Dragons dice (the set that has dice ranging from 4 to 20 faces) and coded up a Lisp program that turned a roll of 5 of these dice

I bought a set of Dungeons and Dragons dice (the set that has dice ranging from 4 to 20 faces) and coded up a Lisp program that turned a roll of 5 of these dice (approx. 16.4 bits of information) into 16 bits (sometimes you have to re-roll). With four rolls I have enough data to seed Lisp's 64-bit PRNG, which was my goal. After all, I use (random x) a whole lot. http://dcussen.posterous.com/my-first-toy-in-lisp-was-random-x http://dcussen.posterous.com/my-first-toy-in-lisp-was-random...