On 5/15/19 8:00 PM, Andrew Church wrote:
>>> It seems that the high bits should be more random. If so, maybe the
>>> high 16 bits should be kept if $RANDOM must stay in 16bits?
>>
>> This seems like something you could test and verify.
>
> This aroused my curiosity, so I passed the generator's output through
> dieharder (https://webhome.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/General/dieharder.php).
Thanks for the investigation.
Chet
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