Timeline for Is pi a good random number generator?
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| Nov 16, 2021 at 11:43 | comment | added | Simd | I don't know if anyone has run $\pi$ through the standard RNG tests such as pcg-random.org/statistical-tests.html . It could be fun. | |
| Nov 11, 2021 at 23:53 | answer | added | William Kuszmaul | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 8, 2013 at 6:45 | answer | added | ARi | timeline score: -6 | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 3:42 | answer | added | none | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 4:22 | answer | added | William Donelson | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jan 17, 2012 at 13:52 | comment | added | Henry Cohn | There are cases where pseudorandom number generators can lead to incorrect simulation results (for example, see "Sensitivity of Ballistic Deposition to Pseudorandom Number Generators" by D'Souza, Bar-Yam, and Kardar (Physical Review E 57 (1998), 5044-5052), mae.ucdavis.edu/dsouza/Pubs/bdrng.final_pre.pdf). These aren't really good PRNGs, certainly not cryptographic ones, but a lot of simulations use whatever lousy PRNG happens to be implemented in their favorite programming language, so this can be a real issue. | |
| Jan 17, 2012 at 6:17 | answer | added | Kimo Crossman | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 8, 2010 at 7:03 | vote | accept | James Propp | ||
| Jun 4, 2010 at 1:01 | comment | added | Robby McKilliam | I doubt it. I personally am much happier believing a published proof (that I can't find an error in) than the output of some sort of RNG built by hand in the real world. | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 23:10 | comment | added | Qiaochu Yuan | Are there actually examples where commercial RNGs have led to false conclusions in a published paper? | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 22:20 | answer | added | Robby McKilliam | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 22:13 | answer | added | Kevin O'Bryant | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 21:25 | answer | added | David Eppstein | timeline score: 21 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 21:04 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 56 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 19:57 | answer | added | Gerald Edgar | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 19:43 | answer | added | TonyK | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 18:37 | comment | added | Steve Huntsman | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 18:16 | answer | added | supercooldave | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jun 3, 2010 at 18:12 | history | asked | James Propp | CC BY-SA 2.5 |