Re:Show HN: Shishua – Fast pseudo-random generator
by HelloNurse on Sunday April 19, 2020 @08:02AM
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On the other hand, some tests could be aligned enough with the needs of a specific application and prove that a PRNG is good, not only probably good.
For example, if a game uses a PRNG to "stretch" a random seed for procedural generation purposes conditional probabilities are important (to avoid spurious correlations between features) but period is completely irrelevant (even a relatively short period would be many orders of magnitude larger than output size).
For example, if a game uses a PRNG to "stretch" a random seed for procedural generation purposes conditional probabilities are important (to avoid spurious correlations between features) but period is completely irrelevant (even a relatively short period would be many orders of magnitude larger than output size).