On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Jinx wrote:

>>    Hi, Jinx!
>
>Hi Mike!
>
>>    You should prove that rejecting some values, you don't
>> hurt randomness.
>>    Why do you reject them at all?
>
>Take the example of a table that has 1000 entries. I'd be looking
>for a number between 000 and 3e7. Therefore the first random byte
>(address high) is  0,1,2 or 3 and the second random number (address
>low) is 00-FF if address high = 0,1, or 2 and 00-e7 if address high =
>03. The third random number is the bit position, 00 to 0d
>
>Rejection is done simply on the basis of the number being too big,
>but every number accepted is random

*DO* get that ent.exe program please. It will tell you whether you're
reasonably random or not. It's on fourmilab.ch. Use google ?

Peter

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