Testing random

[MRAB]

On 2015-06-08 02:42, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 11:34 AM,  <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:
>> In general, as the number of trials increases, the probability of having
>> e.g. at least one of each value never _reaches_ 1, but it gets
>> arbitrarily close.
>
> And by "arbitrarily close", you mean any of:
>
I believe the word is "asymptotic".

> * So close to 1.0 that IEEE double precision is unable to represent it
> * So unlikely that you could perform one trial every nanosecond until
> the heat death of the universe and still not expect to see it
> * Less likely than that two files could accidentally collide on MD5,
> SHA1, SHA256, and file size, simultaneously
>
> I think all of the above are true of this case, though I have to guess
> about the heat death of the universe.
>