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Subject: Re: randomness of random number generators? somewhat OT

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 22:07:25 10/01/05

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On October 01, 2005 at 22:40:33, Brian Kostick wrote:

>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

Hi Brian

Thanks. Good to see you here again.

Regards
Dave



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