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by magicalhippo 1470 days ago
A Geiger-Müller tube has a dead-time after a detection event where it won't register a new event. Thus it's possible to saturate the tube. This would drastically reduce the entropy it generates, from what I can gather.
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I should try and see. The inhibit from the monostable timer could somewhat "transfer" the randomness source from the geiger to the time constant of the 555