From: Sam Quigley <poodge@econ.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 95 00:07:59 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: random coincidences
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What are some of the more common "coincidences" and non-random
correlations that ordinary random number generators (ones found in
common computer languages that don't take extensive measures to be
random) have?

It seems that there's a lot of fuss about getting very random numbers,
but unless the numbers produced by ordinary measures have very obvious
coincidences, maybe it's a big fuss about nothing...?

- -sq

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