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by avoid3d
4403 days ago
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I don't like calling non-uniform distributions 'predictable'. Think of it like this: A coin which produces heads 99/100 times is not predictable, since you cannot predict when the next tails is coming, you just know that they are rarer. As for the distance to the next prime thing, you are just plain wrong, in a sense that he is talking about a seeded pnrg, i.e the starting prime is a seed and you don't get to know which it is, out of all integers... |
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That little "p" makes all the difference. The post I was replying to was asking about the precise definition of "random", not "pseudorandom".
As you allude to, any real randomness in such a scheme needs to come in the form of a seed.