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RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION

Posted By: Ray Kershaw
Date: Monday, 21 June 2010, at 7:14 a.m.

Reading the rather tedious debate below about NJ, I would be interested to learn: (1) is there now a universally recognised "best" method of generating "pseudo-random numbers" (if that is the right term), not just in backgammon software but more generally such as in Excel ?; (2) what are the standard tests of randomness ? I am aware of (a) approximately equal quantities of values of an integer variable such as a dice and (b) absence of correlation in successive values - for example, ten 1's followed by ten 2's etc would pass the first test but not the second.

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  Ray Kershaw -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 7:14 a.m.
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    Maik Stiebler -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 12:51 p.m.
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    Sam Pottle -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:37 p.m.
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    Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 4:56 p.m.
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    Frank Berger -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 9:48 p.m.
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    Timothy Chow -- Monday, 21 June 2010, at 11:46 p.m.
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    Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 11:51 a.m.
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      Timothy Chow -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 5:24 p.m.
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        Fabrice Liardet -- Tuesday, 22 June 2010, at 7:31 p.m.