[Ecls-list] Random numbers not random enough

Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com
Mon Nov 30 20:50:35 UTC 2009


On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Waldek Hebisch <hebisch at math.uni.wroc.pl>wrote:

> Such huge factor is very serious defect: it basically destroys
> value of any number theoretic experiments with large numbers.
>
>
ECL was not actually producing random bignums -- though the random fixnums
were pretty good --. This has been solved in CVS.

Juanjo

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