On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:55:53 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> 2**19937 being a really huge number, it's impossible to exhaust the
> Mersenne twister by running it in sequence.
"Impossible"?
Surely this will do it:
for n in xrange(2**19937 + 1):
random.random()
Admittedly, if each call to random() took a picosecond, it would still
take 1e5982 centuries to run through the lot. You might want to go make a
coffee or something while you're waiting...
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