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Subject: Re: Randomness of numbers

Author: Dieter Buerssner

Date: 01:52:31 12/30/01

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On December 30, 2001 at 02:29:06, Russell Reagan wrote:

>Are there any methods of testing a sequence of "random" numbers to determine
>their degree of randomness, or to determine how good a random number generation
>function is? I vaguely recall hearing about some methods before, but I can't
>remember any.

There are many methods. A good start may be http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/
There is also the news group sci.crypt.random-numbers

Dieter




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