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It's kind of the opposite: if a random number generator never produces "pretty" sequences, that's evidence that it's not truly random. If it produces pretty se
by PhasmaFelis 6y ago
It's kind of the opposite: if a random number generator never produces "pretty" sequences, that's evidence that it's not truly random.
If it produces pretty sequences at significantly greater than expected rates, that would be suspicious.
- idolaspecus 6y agoYour comment is basically correcet, but not as a refutation of mine. Your point is the same as mine: certain "special" outcomes at certain rates are evidence of implementation flaws in our random number generator even though they're not any more or less likely given an actually perfect RNG.
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