On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:55:53 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: > 2**19937 being a really huge number, it's impossible to exhaust the > Mersenne twister by running it in sequence.
"Impossible"? Surely this will do it: for n in xrange(2**19937 + 1): random.random() Admittedly, if each call to random() took a picosecond, it would still take 1e5982 centuries to run through the lot. You might want to go make a coffee or something while you're waiting... -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list