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by elromulous 1477 days ago
IANA cryptographer. But it seems like this results in readings not being truly independent.

Also I feel like there might be some element of nonuniformity, akin to generating a number out of n possible values, and modding it by k, where n is not divisible by k. n and k being the timer period and event in this analogy.

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That would be the case if i was resetting the counter at every read. Instead, it does not reset the counter, so it does not always start from 0. So the analogy would hold only for the very first number.

Btw here is a sample of the data gathered, if you want to further analyze it. It's plain binary: https://github.com/valerionew/Banana-Random-Number-Generator...