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From: Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Will Math.random return 0.0?
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 08:00:06 -0000 (UTC)
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On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:32:32 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 16:12:30 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote:
> 
>> On 7/16/2016 3:39 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Meanwhile, your original code had been running for a while before I
>>> developed and played with my extended version and has currently used
>>> 100.5 minutes of MPU time, which is close to 1 hour 40 since its using
>>> between 99 and 100% of the available CPU time from one of the two
>>> cores. This is running on a laptop powered by a 1.6 GHz Core Duo with
>>> 3GB of RAM and running Fedora 23 Linux.
>>>
>>> My billion sample run took 132 seconds to run, or 7.6 million samples
>>> were generated and analysed per second.
>>>
>>> I'll leave your code running to see if it stops any time thus evening.
>> 
>>      Back of the envelope: 2^53 possible numerators (maybe), one of
>> which is all zero.  7.6 million ~= 2^23 samples per second.  Time to
>> cycle through all numerators ~= 2^(53-23) ~= 1E9 seconds, which is just
>> about thirty-four years.  Maybe only half that if we leave out the
>> analysis, so you should have a definite conclusion by 2033 or so.
>> And maybe you'll only need to get half way through the full cycle to
>> hit pay dirt, so I'll pencil you in for, um, 2025.
> 
> Fair enough. Since its 100% use of one core isn't interfering with
> anything else this laptop is doing or eating the battery faster than the
> charger is filling it, I'll leave it running to see if I get lucky.

Killed at 850 m, 14.17 hours. Didn't stop.


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