> From: David Hobby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I found these online, by doing a Google search for > "tables of random numbers" or somesuch. That came from a page > about an early table, published by the Rand Corporation. (It > went on for awhile about how they produced their "random" > numbers, and then did lots of statistical tests to check that > they really were random. Interesting, sort of.) > They had the standard kind of random digits too, but > when I saw what they called their values of the standard > normal random variable, I had to go for the "normal deviates".
Here's how you figure out how random something is: convert the data to binary numbers in a file and then compress that file with some compression program. If the compressed file cannot compress the file (0% compression) (note compressed file will be bigger than uncompressed file), then the data is completely random / equivalent the output of a good encryption routine.
