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Re: Fast randomizer

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From Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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Subject Re: Fast randomizer
Date Mon, 18 Jan 2021 08:05:16 +0000
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On 18/01/2021 07:55, David Brown wrote:
> On 18/01/2021 08:30, Richard Heathfield wrote:
>> On 18/01/2021 00:53, H e wrote:
>>> David Brown kirjutas esmaspäev, 18. jaanuar 2021 kl 01:09:30 UTC+2:
>>>> On 17/01/2021 23:13, H e wrote:
>>>>> Seems a bit faster in Min.
>>>> (This is your chance to be viewed as serious about learning to program.
>>>> Think, and reply carefully, and you have a chance to learn something
>>>> useful. Continue to post the verbal diarrhoea that you've done so far
>>>> in this group, and you'll lose that chance.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do you think you are testing, using the code you posted? How do
>>>> you think it is affected by the speed of the Math.random() function?
>>>
>>> Hello dear David.
>>> I am testing random() speed.
>>
>> Perhaps, but you're posting scraps of source that David has rightly
>> described as verbal diarrhoea.
>>
>> He's not going to follow your links, any more than anyone else is - or
>> at least, not until you've established that you're capable of holding a
>> meaningful technical discussion, which so far you have not done.
>>
> 
> You are correct that I am not going to follow his links.  But I've given
> him a leg-up on his testing, and we'll see where that leads.

Prediction:

Your code will give different results to the results he's already 
obtained. He will therefore wrongly dismiss your code as being 
incorrect, and will learn bugger all from the exercise.

My basis for this prediction is the ridiculous way he handled the 
cross-sum "discussion".

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
Sig line 4 vacant - apply within

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  Re: Fast randomizer Tavis Ormandy <taviso@gmail.com> - 2021-01-17 21:11 +0000
    Re: Fast randomizer H e <he12457@hotmail.com> - 2021-01-17 13:26 -0800
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        Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-18 00:09 +0100
          Re: Fast randomizer H e <he12457@hotmail.com> - 2021-01-17 16:53 -0800
            Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-18 07:30 +0000
              Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-18 08:55 +0100
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2021-01-18 08:05 +0000
            Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-18 08:47 +0100
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                Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2021-01-18 12:19 +0100
                Re: Fast randomizer Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2022-01-05 02:56 -0800
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-01-05 11:27 +0000
                Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-01-05 16:00 +0100
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-01-05 16:35 +0000
                Re: Fast randomizer Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2022-01-05 14:23 -0800
                Re: Fast randomizer David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2022-01-05 23:36 +0100
                Re: Fast randomizer Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2022-01-05 14:41 -0800
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-01-06 00:32 +0000
                Re: Fast randomizer Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2022-01-06 01:21 -0800
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-01-06 09:38 +0000
                Re: Fast randomizer Julio Di Egidio <julio@diegidio.name> - 2022-01-06 01:48 -0800
                Re: Fast randomizer Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2022-01-06 00:24 +0000
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