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		seano on May 20, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Computer Random vs. True Random : See the differen... Yeah, you can see it has a small period from the presence of a repeated pattern. I think if he had used the Mersenne twister algorithm the output would be indistinguishable.

michael_dorfman on May 21, 2008 [–]

That would be a cool project-- to compare the patterns for various pseudo-random number generator algorithms...

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