Re: random number code.

mgraffam@mhv.net
Sat, 22 Aug 1998 02:30:19 -0400 (EDT)

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On Fri, 21 Aug 1998 steven.soroka@mts.mb.ca wrote:

> I've counted the occurances of each byte, they seem to be within a few
> hundred of eachother when I generated a million of them... so it
> doesn't seem to be too biased with any certain characters..

123456789012345678901234567890

This is not biased against any one character, nor would such a series
compress very well (if it were from 0-255): but it is not random either.

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