Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: mhx@iae.nl (mhx) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: KISS 64-bit pseudo-random number generator Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 06:07:19 +0000 Organization: novaBBS Message-ID: References: <7w7cblb9je.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> <0d6fd7afead1708921d74f60970bcf62@www.novabbs.com> <2024Sep9.105514@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at> <87wmjg2t9f.fsf@nightsong.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1868955"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="t0bSWFIQDvYvkkhDiPIIv6byulC6WbSEwXWMJpxc4k0"; User-Agent: Rocksolid Light X-Rslight-Posting-User: 59549e76d0c3560fb37b97f0b9407a8c14054f24 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 X-Rslight-Site: $2y$10$.lKman86leahjS.LA3xJuuWZMKnTrz5gLmoE/9e3Q20Q8QnKYp6DK Bytes: 1660 Lines: 13 On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 2:15:56 +0000, Paul Rubin wrote: > Krishna Myneni writes: >> Marsaglia's 64-bit KISS PRNG. Hard to say which is better for this >> problem. > > Try either against a cryptographic PRNG and see if there is enough > difference to satisfy a traditional statistical hypothesis test? I guess these generators need to be initialized. Wouldn't the outcome of the integration then depend on the statistical characteristics of method used to do that initialization? -marcel