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

[Mark R V Murray]

> On 1 Apr 2015, at 16:13, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> 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

Well spotted!

Before someone makes a terrible mistake, I should point out that 4 is confirmed random, as cited here: https://xkcd.com/221/

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Mark R V Murray