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Comment by buo

From the abstract: "A pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is a deterministic algorithm that produces numbers whose distribution is indistinguishable from uniform."

I think this is incorrect, since it would imply that a program that produces the sequence 1,2,1,2,1,2,1.... is a PRNG.

parent buo 13 years ago

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