kmr;300284 Wrote: 
> I think you're mistaken here; if the RNG seed were the same, you'd get
> the SAME random number sequence.  What I get with my iPod and dislike
> is similar but not identical random number sequences - a classic sign
> of correlation with the RNG (i.e., different seeds produce similar
> sequences). And yes, I can tell that, out of several thousand songs, I
> tend to hear the same ones in the first 100 or so.

Can you describe what a "similar but not identical" random sequence is?
You are correct, my car radio plays IDENTICAL sequenced. But I don't
fully understand what you mean, then. To have similar sequences is not
necessarily a correlation, a correlations means predictability.


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