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Comment by eff-nix

Sure, when comparing 0’s to anything else. But what about normal distribution to uniform in 0,1? The author hand waves something about signs but it’s not very well reasoned - that’s just a single bit in floats.

And what of the Pi test - I’d expect that to flip many more bits than the 1-bit one.

parent eff-nix 5 months ago

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