3 ms·
I'm sorry, the quality tests are garbage. Anyone who's done even a cursory amount of research into PRNGs has already heard about the Diehard tests and would ha
by asymptotic 15y ago
I'm sorry, the quality tests are garbage. Anyone who's done even a cursory amount of research into PRNGs has already heard about the Diehard tests and would have used these in preference, or as a subset, of subsequent testing.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diehard_tests https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diehard_tests
As may be expected Diehard isn't the be-all-and-end-all of random generator testing; NIST have their own standards. Dieharder is an attempt to consolidate Diehard, NIST, and various other randomness tests.
http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php
This is a severe, severe case of "Not Invented Here"; please do research before reinventing the wheel.
- messel 15y agoJust looking for a good enough solution that's easy enough to bundle into a small packaged sim. I'll review your recommendations, thanks for sharing them.