[Python-ideas] Re: Nonuniform PRNG?

[Barry]

On 7 Dec 2022, at 19:45, James Johnson <jj126...@gmail.com> wrote:  How do I join the “regular” Python list? I’m not academically qualified for python ideas Try out https://discuss.python.org that has lots going on. Barry On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 10:05 AM David Lowry-Duda <da...@lowryduda.com> wrote: I'm very sorry, I didn't meant to post this to python-ideas. I didn't pay enough attention. I'm sending the same thing to the regular python list. On Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:03:24AM -0500, David Lowry-Duda wrote: >Inspired by the recent thread on PRNG, I began to wonder: suppose that >I had a pseudorandom number generator that attempted to generate a >nonuniform distribution. Suppose for instance that it was to generate >a 0 bit 2/3 of the time, and a 1 bit 1/3 of the time. > >How would one go about testing this PRNG against an idealized >(similarly biased) PRNG? > >- DLD _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/5C6XQAKD2KLJNYQT6QUIDCJLDSY3ECPL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ -- Truth causes consequences; consequences bring pain; pain exorcises guilt! _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/HLSE3UTNQTG7ML3ZVBJAX7QCGPOFGZV7/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

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