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		avip on June 2, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle It was meant to be read a question, not statement ("are you aware of a simpler PRNG I could pull from the top of my head, using basic arithmetics?"). Maybe a collatz sequence? You're right, apparently it's called Chebyshev's bias.

bumbledraven on June 4, 2016 [–]

I'm not aware of a simpler PRNG. It took me quite a search to find Marsaglia's.

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