Re: question about random generator
- From: "Antonio" <anconor@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 Jul 2005 03:19:21 -0700
pete wrote:
> Does "pseudo-random" mean the same thing as "uniformly distributed" ?
Completely OT, but anyway... No, pseudo-random means that it looks like
it's random but it really isn't. There is no way to generate trully
random numbers with a computer, everything you do is deterministic, but
you can generate sequences that look like they're random but that
aren't. Hence the term _pseudo_-random.
.
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