Is your math correct? That's ridiculously large.
On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Andre Engels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Daniele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >From here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator#Periodicity >> and here >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister#Advantages >> >> I think it can be argued that the randomness is pretty trustworthy :o) > > Nice understatement on that last page - "most applications do not > require 2^19937 unique combinations (2^19937 is approximately 4.315425 > × 10^6001)." > > If you used every atom in the known universe as a computer, then let > them turn out a billion combinations a second for the entire time > since the big bang, and call the number of combination you get then > N... > then take N computers turning out N combinations a second for the > entire time since the big bang, and call the number of combinations > they turn out N2... > then take N2 computers turning out N2 combinations a second and call > the number of combination they turn out in the time since the big bang > and call that N3... > then the number of combinations turned out by N3 computers turning out > N3 combinations per second in the time since the big bang STILL > dwarves in comparison to that number. > > > -- > André Engels, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
