Re: That "squalid raffle" (aka Premium bonds) Times Sat 29 April 2006

Richard Buttrey wrote:

Except that I thought ERNIE was just that: an electronic random number
generator. As such it surely doesn't rely on a numbers having to be fed in to
some database - (how could it, back in the 50s datbases were still a
decade or more away). It just churns out a number that it 'invents' at that moment, and is
totally independent of having a fixed series of numbers.

Surely it only generates a number for a bond that has been issued and not "cashed in"? In a sense that is a random number from a fixed series of numbers.
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