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Why do we need “perfectly” random numbers?
I periodically see articles about physicists or others coming up with a technique that generates a slightly more random number than was possible before, and how this is useful for encryption. But ...
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How to check that a sequence of numbers is random?
I have a sequence of numbers
like 1,7,22,45,12,96,21,45,65,36,85,14,51,16,18,17,16....65...
IS there any formula to check whether the sequence is random or not ?
In my case
odd numbers are ...
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How to generate Zipf-like samples, by using scripting language
Is there any scripting language function (like in python or bash) that samples from a zipf-like distribution, for exponent ...
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What type of distribution would rand()/rand() produce?
If rand() is a function which produces a linearly distributed random number over a range not containing zero, then what type of distribution would rand() / rand() produce?
I know it would center at ...
