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Re:Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball? by worried_citizen on Friday January 08, 2016 @04:21PM (#10868372)
Do you have a source for this? I'm extremely curious. Random number generation is a fun problem.
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Re:Here’s $100. Can you win $800M at Powerball? by dsl on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @06:38PM (#10891256)
It is based on my reverse engineering of a lottery terminal. I can't vouch for the quality of the RNG, as I alluded to in my previous comment, but the local RNG isn't used in any meaningful fashion.

I can point you in the direction of the MontaVista Linux distribution, which is what most of the terminals run.

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