Re: [Tutor] Determining periodicity of rand.randint()

2009-01-31 Thread Kent Johnson
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:39 PM, Tony Cappellini wrote: > > > Has anyone ever measured how random (or deterministic) a given sequence of > numbers generated by rand.randint() are? > > Using these arguments for rand.randint(0, 1000 ) > if a program which calls rand.randint() runs for 10 hours (

Re: [Tutor] Determining periodicity of rand.randint()

2009-01-31 Thread bob gailer
Tony Cappellini wrote: Has anyone ever measured how random (or deterministic) a given sequence of numbers generated by rand.randint() are? Using these arguments for rand.randint(0, 1000 ) if a program which calls rand.randint() runs for 10 hours (or a few days), will it keep generating

[Tutor] Determining periodicity of rand.randint()

2009-01-31 Thread Tony Cappellini
Has anyone ever measured how random (or deterministic) a given sequence of numbers generated by rand.randint() are? Using these arguments for rand.randint(0, 1000 ) if a program which calls rand.randint() runs for 10 hours (or a few days), will it keep generating a repeatable set of numbers at