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Comment by hermannj314

Assuming the code is black box, an outside observer would need no more than a thousand observations before they could definitely say something was off about your rand_1_to_10() mod 3 code (with 95% confidence).

But in the case of the random_u64() mod 10, you would need the heat death of the universe number of samples before that bias would be noticeably distinguishable from random.

Is there an actual example of where that specific case could be significant for anything other than maybe nation-state cryptography?

parent hermannj314 24 days ago

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