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

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 23:13 +0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> > 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
> 

Odd, I though Lennon & Ono were the primary proponents of number 9, as
detailed in their 1968 work on the subject.

-- Ian