Coding randomness
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“Brianbec” shares his thoughts on statistical tests for random-number generators. He appears to have found some very interesting results that he explains at lenghth on his Weblog.
“I found a well regarded battery of statistical tests for random-number generators. The battery is called “DIEHARD” (nyuk nyuk), and encapsulates the accumulated experience and wisdom of George Marsaglia, a recognized expert.”
“For some reasons I could not diagnose, DIEHARD refused to run its last handful of tests on MY data sets, encountering some kind of end-of-file error, even though my files were of the same format (so far as I could tell) as Marsaglia’s. Probably some ^Z issue. I may not bother looking into it: the evidence is IN:”
