Randomness Testing Guide

(random.tastemaker.design)

14 points | by user070223 9 days ago ago

3 comments

  • jap 12 minutes ago

    There was originally a bug in the GAlib random number generator... if I remember correctly, the guy who identified it told me this was found (or demonstrated) by making a scatter plot of generated numbers an observing there was a pattern to the data.

  • guytv 2 hours ago

    If you take the UTF-8 binary for “hello world” and paste it there, it passes 4 out of 5 randomness tests.

    Strange.

    (0110100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000111011101101111011100100110110001100100)

    • cnnlives9099 an hour ago

      It looks like there is some repetition in the binary representation to me. English language phrases in UTF-8 are not going to look random.