Re: A86: Re: Random Numbers

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Subject: Re: A86: Re: Random Numbers
From: "David Phillips" <david@acz.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:01:20 -0500
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Hehe, you're right.  That's what I get for reading my email at 1AM :)  What
I meant to say was where the probability of each number coming up is the
same.  Like when flipping a coin, the probability for both heads and tails
is equally 50% (discounting quantum physics and such :)  Because the routine
I wrote grabs bytes from the rom, some numbers will occur very frequently
and others will never appear.  The price of speed...

If anyone else can come up with a better random number generator in under 20
bytes and 100 t-states, I'd love to see it!

> Exact probability? That's an oxymoron if I've ever
> heard one ;).
>
> --- David Phillips <david@acz.org> wrote:
> > work.  But this works fine
> > for making random decisions where exact probability
> > doesn't matter (like AI,
> > random powerups, etc.).  It's advantage is it's

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Re: A86: Re: Random Numbers

From: David Thomas <david_hd@yahoo.com>