Author: Brian Kostick
Date: 19:40:33 10/01/05
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On October 01, 2005 at 18:04:31, Michael Yee wrote: >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 Hi Dave, Michael, This seems to be along the same lines and was tucked away in my bookmarks: http://csrc.nist.gov/rng/ Regards, Brian
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