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Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:33:22 -0400
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Subject: Re: random() : What am I doing wrong?
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Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com wrote:
> DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote on 09/05/2007 09:11:13 AM:
> 
>>> That depends if you care about equidistribution; if you do,
>>> you'd be better off
>>
>> ... not using random() in the first place.
> 
> Fair enough :)  I can recommend the Mersenne Twister for this,
> if anyone cares...

And a suitable module for the Mersenne is included in the hashlib
package to ensure testing always uses the same sequence of 'random'
values.  See:

  <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/>

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