On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:32:35 +0000, George Sakkis wrote: > On Jul 16, 10:51 pm, Steven D'Aprano > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:55:53 +0200, Hrvoje Niksic wrote: >> > 2**19937 being a really huge number, it's impossible to exhaust the >> > Mersenne twister by running it in sequence. >> >> "Impossible"? >> >> Surely this will do it: >> >> for n in xrange(2**19937 + 1): >> random.random() >> >> Admittedly, if each call to random() took a picosecond, it would still >> take 1e5982 centuries to run through the lot. You might want to go make a >> coffee or something while you're waiting... > > Wow, can you make a coffee in.. 57ms ?
[snip demonstration of xrange raising an exception] Of course! Can't you? And if I use a microwave oven, the coffee is made so quickly that I actually go backwards in time... -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
