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Subject: Re: I'm wrong about 10-0 vs 60-40

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 01:38:01 02/02/01

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On February 02, 2001 at 03:59:25, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>On January 31, 2001 at 20:44:54, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>(I once ran imaginary coin flips for 14 days on a PII 350 MHz).
>
>This test is probably worth only to verify the quality of the random number
>generator, that with such a big number of samples used probably either showed
>it's periodicity or its "unrandomness".

I use the Mersenne Twister.  It would take a whale of a long time to exhaust the
period.
http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html



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