From: Clinton Bunch <cdb_zsh@zentaur.org>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] zsh/random module
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 21:41:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ed3387ec-1ead-4681-ae3f-facef4c3d19d@zentaur.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57374b5f-77b9-4dee-aaba-5c4bdeb1b281@zentaur.org>
On 3/24/2024 09:11, Clinton Bunch wrote:
>
>
> I am still working on the test harness. I'm thinking about using a C
> program for analysis of shell output, but no current test harness does
> anything like that. (long double would really be helpful for larger
> bounds, 1-20 works, 1-100 causes overflows)
>
I'm struggling with a test for this module. I thought about doing a
statistical analysis (chi-square) of output, but I can't get a
successful p-value nearly 10% of the time. I tried doing the same with
return values from the base library functions and got similar bias, so
it appears I'd just be testing the randomness of the kernel PRNG rather
than compilation of code.
Anyone else have any ideas?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-06 2:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-24 14:11 Clinton Bunch
2024-03-25 2:34 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-03-26 12:47 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-03-26 13:01 ` Clinton Bunch
2024-03-26 18:25 ` Bart Schaefer
2024-04-06 2:41 ` Clinton Bunch [this message]
2024-04-06 16:48 ` Clinton Bunch
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