Tim Peters wrote: > Off the top of my head, then, since the Twister is provably > equidistributed in 623 dimensions to 32-bit accuracy, I expect it > should be able to "fairly" generate all permutations of a sequence of > <= 623 elements (equidistribution in N dimensions implies > equidistribution in all dimensions <= N). So I'm happy to leave a > warning out until the casinos switch to 12-deck blackjack ;-)
But isn't the problem with the Twister that for *some initial states* the period could be much *shorter* than the theoretical maximum? Or is the probability of getting such an initial state too small to worry about? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com