For a time, radiation counters were considered as potential devices for obtaining random variables. The physical model was that the counts were considered as a Poisson process with a constant rate λ....

For a time, radiation counters were considered as potential devices for obtaining random variables. The physical model was that the counts were considered as a Poisson process with a constant rate λ. Discuss methods for obtaining either random bits or uniform random variables from this Poisson process. In reality, the inter-event time recorded by any counter might include “dead time” during which the system was recovering. Would this affect any method you have proposed?