Everybody knows the classical Mersenne Twister, but only few people know that Microsoft Visual Studio’s C compiler is also a true random number generator.

You start with a C/C++ program with compile errors. You then fix any single one of them. The new number of errors is your random number. This can be repeated ad infinitum as C/C++ programs are never without errors, and is guaranteed to be apriodic.

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