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Subject: Re: more newbie ques (randomness, md5hash)
From: G. Wade Johnson (gwadejanomaly.org)
Date: Sun Sep 24 2000 - 20:08:16 CDT

<delurk>
At 03:43 AM 9/21/00 -0400, Marcus Watts wrote:
> Not finding a pattern proves nothing, because there may be a
>pattern that just wasn't visible to the particular tests run. There is
>a nice description of randomness, including common pitfalls and some
>tests, in Knuth. Schneier's AC has more stuff on randomness. I
>believe there are also software packages out that will apply some of
>the common tests, although I don't actually know where they live.

For Marsaglia's DIEHARD battery of Random number sequence tests, check out

http://stat.fsu.edu/~geo/diehard.html.

G. Wade
</delurk>

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