On 2007-07-19, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
But what happens if you use a microwave oven? ... What the!?!? -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
