Wolfram published his analysis of CA RNG in 1986.[1] Since then, his paper has been cited 408 times.[2] Richard Feynman tried to crack rule 30, but declared h

Wolfram published his analysis of CA RNG in 1986.[1] Since then, his paper has been cited 408 times.[2] Richard Feynman tried to crack rule 30, but declared he couldn't. That's probably partly why Wolfram describes rule 30 as "probably my all-time favorite scientific discovery."[3] You said earlier that "[rule 30 has] gotta be much too simple." Many serious mathematicians have felt that way over the past 30 years, but so far nobody has shown how it is a bad RNG. If someone does so at this point, they would make quite a splash in mathematics.... [1] http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/random-sequence-generation-cellular-automata.pdf http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/academic/random-s... [2] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22random+sequence+generation+by+cellular+automata%22 https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22random+sequence+gene... [3] http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/short-talk-about-richard-feynman/ http://www.stephenwolfram.com/publications/short-talk-about-...