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I needed something like that some time ago. I found this RANDOM.ORG - HTTP Interface Description[^]
It's pretty great.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Yes, but with a quota of 200000 bits per day, it will take a while to do the tests. 
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i was thinking you could download it in batches. They have a bulk generator.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Yes, but with a quota, if you want more you have to pay.
And it costs a bit more than I want to pay just to test an idea I have.
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Great comments !
I needed a bunch of random numbers once and I grabbed a WinAES wrapper class from here and used it. It worked out pretty well.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Seems like the way to go for me.
Everything truly random costs money, and I'm just testing something to disprove an idea I had.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But where do I find a reliable source of a million truly random numbers?
Using a search engine you should be able to find a hardware number generator that uses Cesium-137 or Potassium-40. The hardware coming out of Switzerland seems expensive at around €900.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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how many digits of a number?
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And this book is published in 1955. I wonder what computer they used.
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They didn't, they used an electronic roulette wheel and fed the numbers into an IBM punch during May-June 1947.
It's in the introduction to the book.
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My late Mum (a statistician) had a book of random numbers in the living room bookshelf. It was one of the most used books when I was a kid (if only because it was regularly taken out to show friends what a weirdo Mum was!   ) It was a hardcover book, possibly the same as this one (same layout of the random numbers) but I think it just got put in a skip when she downsized in the 1980s. And this hardcover version is selling at $495 !!  
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There should be a low-cost way of generating random numbers.
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