Tony Cappellini wrote:
Has anyone ever measured how random (or deterministic) a given
sequence of numbers generated by rand.randint() are?
Using these arguments for rand.randint(0, 10000000 )
if a program which calls rand.randint() runs for 10 hours (or a few
days), will it keep generating a repeatable set of numbers at some
point? I'm trying to understand the periodicity (or lack of) of the
numbers generated by rand.randint()
random uses AFAIK the Mersenne Twister algorithm. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister
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