On Jul 18, 2007, at 3:21 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
> I believe I have raised the philosophical question before - if a given
> set of pseudo-random numbers is indistinguishable from a set of "true
> random random numbers", is the distinction still useful ?
I believe that if the generation scheme is repeated exactly, the
same set of numbers could be generated. So it isn't the quality of a
single set; it's a quality of multiple runs of the same set.
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