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A True Winning Number Generator
Summary
True Random Number Generators (TRNG) have been a goal of designers for decades, with techniques commonly used which attempt to take advantage of the randomness inherent in noise or radioactivity. Often these TRNG designs deliver numbers which are provably non-random, and the resultant stream needs to be further processed, or combined with other TRNG streams to improve the overall results.
Of particular interest is a device or design which delivers true “winning” numbers1, or numbers that are the winning numbers in a game of chance, for example a state-run lottery.
Introduction
The key to the TWNG (true winning number generator) was to develop an entirely new method of temporal vision, which allows for the future winning numbers to be detected before they are issued.
The problem up until now has been the basic limitations of the speed of light, and the time horizon, which state that time travel is really impossible. Since we do not actually want to go to the future, all we want is to know some information from the future, it was discovered that quantum entanglement of qubits could be used to communicate a future winning number sent into the past (or now).
We call this the Qu2-Ball™ (pronounced: Qu squared Ball) predictive analysis method. As opposed to earlier methods, namely the Screw-Ball method, the Qu2-Ball method lends itself to an efficient implementation in 10,000 XC5VLX330T devices.
Use Models
Once the arrays are assembled, and the power supplies turned on, and the configurations downloaded, a stream of entangled winning numbers is generated at a rate of one per minute. Unfortunately, it is unknown where these numbers are the winning numbers, or even in what order they are the winning numbers, or in which lottery in what future, but every single number will appear in some future lottery as a winning one.
Summary
Rather than waste vast amounts of electricity on something silly like sequencing the genome, the TWNG array performs a quantum mechanical miracle that is validated on an ongoing basis by looking at all of the lottery results as they come in, and saying “I knew that”.
Reference:
(1) http://www.your-winning-numbers.com/lottery/index.
April Fools, enjoy!
Austin Lesea
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kcmman
- Ken Chapman holds a first class BSc Degree with honours in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Surrey. Before obtaining his degree, he spent 4 years working in production environments, making precision instruments and working his way through all levels of a small electronics company. He spent 4 years at Racal Radar Defense Systems combining detailed digital design with all aspects of system integration. Ken joined the UK division of Xilinx in 1991, and was instrumental in developing innovative methods of implementing DSP functions in the Xilinx devices. He has filed several patents while at Xilinx, including the 'MULT_AND' gate seen in each Virtex™ and Spartan-II™ device that has made multipliers and other arithmetic functions smaller and faster.
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peter.a
- Peter Alfke joined Xilinx in 1988 as director of applications engineering. He currently serves as Distinguished Engineer in the Advanced Products Group. He graduated in electronic engineering from the Technical University in Hannover, Germany in 1957. He went on to work in telecom and computer design with LM Ericsson and Litton Industries before moving to California in 1968. He has spent forty years in Applications Engineering with Fairchild, Zilog, AMD, and now Xilinx. He holds more than thirty patents, has authored many application notes, and given worldwide seminars on digital integrated circuits. He is active in the newsgroup comp.arch.fpga.
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austin.lesea
- Austin graduated from UC Berkeley in 1974 and 1975 with his BS EECS in Electromagnetic (E&M) Theory and MS EECS in Communications and Information Theory. He has worked in the telecommunications field for 20 years designing optical, microwave, and copper- based transmission systems. He developed SONET/SDH GPS-based Timing Systems for 12 of those years. For the last ten years at Xilinx, Austin was in the IC Design department for the Virtex product line. His new role is working for Xilinx Research Labs, where he is looking beyond the present technology issues.
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