Message218382
| Author |
pitrou |
| Recipients |
Arfrever, alex, dstufft, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner |
| Date |
2014年05月12日.23:41:22 |
| SpamBayes Score |
-1.0 |
| Marked as misclassified |
Yes |
| Message-id |
<1399938080.2339.31.camel@fsol> |
| In-reply-to |
<1399937752.18.0.0201962181488.issue21470@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
| Content |
> The theoretical properties that make the Twister so attractive were
> all proved based on mathematical analysis of its entire period. The
> only way to get at the whole period is to allow for all possible
> seeds.
>
> If the seeds Python can use are drawn from a relatively tiny subset of
> the possible seeds, nothing can be said about most of the "proved
> correct" properties anymore. Maybe they still hold. Maybe they
> don't. In the absence of analysis (which, AFAIK, is still too
> difficult to do), the only way to be safe is to refrain from being so
> bloody "clever" in the interest of saving a few microseconds.
Thanks for the explanation. It's much clearer now. |
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