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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by detrino on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @08:54AM (#10078910)
Perhaps just an artifact of a weak PRNG or not truly uniform distribution?
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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by Sharlin on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @09:08AM (#10078971)
No. A truly uniform random distribution indeed has "clumps".
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Re:How odd is a cluster of plane crashes? by detrino on Tuesday August 18, 2015 @09:28AM (#10079052)
And a poor PRNG or poor implementation of a uniform distribution (both extremely common, for example: rand() % max) has more clumps, my question is still valid.

Edit: I wrote a program[1] to fill random pixels based on rand/modulo and mersenne twister/uniform distribution and I could not tell the difference in the generates images.

[1] https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9c726ea636f06900ba3a

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