Author: Michael Yee
Date: 15:04:31 10/01/05
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On October 01, 2005 at 17:13:30, David Dahlem wrote: >Is there any way to test the true randomness of various random number >generators? > >Thanks >Dave I don't know too much about this topic... But I have heard of the "runs test" : http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35d.htm By the way, I've seen it mentioned here numerous times that the Mersenne Twister algorithm for pseudo random number generation is very good. Michael
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