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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Ivan Kanis <ivan.kanis@googlemail.com>,
	emacs devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: random doesn't feel very random
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 02:10:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50374504.4050807@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipc8vkj6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>

On 08/24/2012 12:03 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> That doesn't mean there are no such experts among Emacs developers,
> it just means I haven't seen anybody display appropriate credentials
> on emacs-devel.

I'm not sure what you mean by "credentials".  Is there a secret
handshake we have to use?  Or does published code suffice?

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/gl/lib/rand-isaac.c

An analysis is here:

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html

I haven't bothered to put this stuff into Emacs, but it shouldn't
be that hard to add if there's a real need.



  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-24  9:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-24  5:47 random doesn't feel very random Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24  6:22 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-08-24 17:19   ` random doesn't feel very random, random doesn't feel very random, " Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24 18:50     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-25  7:46       ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24  6:30 ` Leo
2012-08-24 22:48   ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-24 22:57     ` Andreas Schwab
2012-08-25 20:55       ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-25 23:25         ` Leo
2012-08-26 13:12           ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-26 14:24             ` Achim Gratz
2012-08-26 23:22               ` Leo
2012-08-27  0:50               ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-27  6:31                 ` Simon Leinen
2012-08-27  3:41               ` Richard Stallman
2012-08-27  4:48                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31  9:41                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 15:06                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31 15:23                       ` chad
2012-08-31 17:50                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 19:43                         ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-01  1:18                           ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-01  7:19                             ` Achim Gratz
2012-09-01 13:19                               ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 19:19                                 ` Nix
2012-09-04 20:07                                   ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-04 20:11                                     ` Nix
2012-09-02 12:27                               ` Jason Rumney
2012-09-02 13:08                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-01  7:22                             ` Ivan Kanis
2012-09-01 11:13                             ` joakim
2012-08-31 23:04                       ` Leo
2012-08-27  5:17                 ` Achim Gratz
2012-08-31  9:42                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-31 15:07                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-08-31 17:50                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-08-26  9:06         ` Ivan Kanis
2012-08-24  7:03 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-24  9:10   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2012-08-24 17:45     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-08-24 12:45 ` OT: appropriateness of "random" for playlist generation (was: random doesn't feel very random) Jeremiah Dodds
2012-08-24 14:37 ` random doesn't feel very random Drew Adams

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