Re: flame about random numbers

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From: Gregory Dudek
Date: Fri, 04 Jan 1985 20:56

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With respect to your criticism of the random numbers generated by the Apple II,
are you aware that the numbers are dependent on (cycled by) the delays
before each character of input is recieved.  i.e. while the machine
is busy waiting for keyboard input, it increments a counter used in
random number generation.  Consequently, unless your tests on the 
generators accounted for this, I don't think the results are really all
that valid in many contexts (especially in the context of games  -- which
you referred to).
   Greg Dudek.

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Subject: Re: flame about random numbers
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