Nonuniform PRNG?

David Lowry-Duda david at lowryduda.com
Wed Dec 7 11:05:53 EST 2022


Inspired by the recent thread about pseudorandom number generators on 
python-ideas (where I also mistakenly first wrote this message), I began 
to wonder: suppose that I had a pseudorandom number generator that 
attempted to generate a nonuniform distribution. Suppose for instance 
that it was to generate a 0 bit 2/3 of the time, and a 1 bit 1/3 of the 
time.

How would one go about testing this PRNG against an idealized (similarly 
biased) PRNG?

- DLD


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