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Subject: Re: Random keys and hamming distance

Author: Sune Fischer

Date: 01:08:02 08/17/02

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On August 17, 2002 at 03:20:19, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 17, 2002 at 00:51:59, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>I don't have my source code with me now, but I remember that OR'ing the two
>>32-bit values will give very bad results.
>
>Why?

Because in some generators the lower bits are not as random as the upper ones.

-S.

>--
>GCP



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