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- From: schnitzi@longwood.cs.ucf.edu (Mark Schnitzius)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How to test a random generator ?
- Date: 25 Jan 1996 18:18:17 -0500
- Organization: University of Central Florida
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- emmguyot@desiree.univ-orleans.fr (Emmanuel GUYOT) writes:
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- >How can I test a random generator ?
- >I need to verify that my random generator is really
- >random. Can you tell me a way to test this ?
-
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- Every random number algorithm I've ever seen repeats
- after a given number of digits. Good ones take a
- long time to repeat. See how many digits it takes
- before yours starts to repeat.
-
- If I remember correctly, there's no way to tell if
- a given sequence is truly random. I think there was
- something about it in The Turing Omnibus by A. K.
- Dewdney.
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