[defrost]

* Then, I fed them to the NIST Statistical Test Suite.

* I encourage you to play with the STS code.

* It also segfaults all over the place, which is actually very disturbing considering that it’s technically part of the US government’s computer security project.

Well, package that computes stats on number series to test variopus notions of randomness - it's not as if pwning the STS will let you play a game of nuclear war.

All the same, there's an exercise for any budding numerical programmers, read up on the suite, build it, run it, static analyse it, valgrind it, and iron a few wrinkles out.

https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/random-bit-generation/documen...

Got to be worth a humble brag in an application or two | make contacts in NIST.

[observer5]

Segfaults are reported in section 10 of

  https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=189992958054266148

The paper also reports in section 7 the state-of-the-art in statistical tests --- DIEHARD and NIST STS seem obsoleted by TESTU01.