On Sat, 6 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote: > What are the considerations for choosing a system random number > generator? What if debian were the first unix to have a good random > number generator ? (is there another?) At least I should upload GPL'd > versions of the good generators (there is not much code) for people that > need them .
First, does it pass a basic statistical analysis? e.g. mean, standard deviation, probability of individual number all correct, no patterns, and probably a bunch of other things I never learned about. I'm working on a final for a course that spent a large amount of time on a random generator. What were you testing? How long it took to generate a bunch of numbers? I had a hard time figuring out what you meant by worse performance. Brandon ----- Brandon Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds" Phone: (757) 221-4847 --Linus Torvalds -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
