[Coco] Tandy Color Computer 3 RND Function

[John Guin]

There is a good overview in which the authors graphed out some random numbers from a couple of random number generators at 
https://www.random.org/analysis/

It's a little old at this point, but you can just look at the 2 graphs and you can see that the PHP  pseudo random number generator is very obviously not random.



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From: Coco <coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com> On Behalf Of Allen Huffman
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Or, use lava lamps:

https://nam01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLavarand&data=02%7C01%7C%7Cb3cdb944da724552e19608d7d1f871c2%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637208737295961270&sdata=iSg3QpYuDTcgQNIVzpJJnUxQvkB%2BtXD5q1ihP2jtYVo%3D&reserved=0

I love the idea of making a computer randomly select colored marbles and come up with the stats based on what happened, rather than calculating it.

I do wonder how accurate the calculated probability would be compared to letting a true random generator (like lavarand, etc.) just do it a million times.

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