From: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] zsh/random
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:10:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <198c6c0c-cbec-41ac-a174-a0bc3e4a1586@zentaur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <66b4e820-e741-4476-a7cc-5860d9929b7f@zentaur.org>
On 6/17/2024 19:16, Clinton Bunch wrote:
>
> On 6/17/2024 18:52, Clinton Bunch wrote:
>> On 6/17/2024 09:43, Jun. T wrote:
>>>> Test/V15random.ztst
>>> I don't know whether zsh need to check the "quality" of the random
>>> number. I guess the simple $RANDOM would also pass these tests.
>> RANDOM would not pass these tests. They test the difference between
>> the distribution of the generated values against the ideal equal
>> distribution.
>>
I was wrong. Apparently, RANDOM isn't sufficiently biased to fail these
tests. I'm beginning to think there is no useful test that can be run
on this module, but I'm open to suggestions.
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-18 2:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-27 19:31 Clinton Bunch
2024-06-17 14:43 ` Jun. T
2024-06-17 23:52 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-06-18 0:16 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-06-18 2:10 ` Clinton Bunch [this message]
2024-06-19 20:21 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-06-19 20:37 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-08-27 22:35 ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-08-30 13:06 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-08-31 12:56 ` Oliver Kiddle
2024-08-31 14:10 ` Clinton Bunch
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