svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom

[Julian Elischer]

On 4/1/15 11:11 PM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 4/1/15 10:18 PM, Ian Lepore wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 13:52 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
>>> As a side note I'm surprised with the choice of 7.
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>>> I would expect 3, no more, no less. 3 would be the number returned,
>>> and the number readers receive would be 3.
>> 5 would be right out.
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> there is prior art for 7...  I remember seeing it once.. 7, 7, 7, 7, 
> 7 ...
> that's the trouble with randomness, you can't really tell..
> I remember a part of a paper on the topic by Adams S,  et al.
> I think it was towards the end of the paper.

I stand corrected...  the number selected in the paper was 9


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