scott wrote:

> Obviously the results from your RNG are not going to *exactly* match the 
> formulas above, so how do you plan to figure out how far away is 
> acceptable?

It depends on the sample size. The more random numbers you generate, the 
closer the computed values should match the expected values, although 
still not exactly.

So far, the generator produces histogram and modulus results that differ 
from the expected values by about 0.1% of the sample size, which seems 
fairly reasonable to me.

Of course, it should *also* be possible to statistically compute the 
probability of a difference from the expected value of a given size. 
(E.g., isn't the sample mean supposed to be normally distributed around 
the true mean or something?) But I don't know how to do that yet. So 
far, all I've done is compute numbers and observe that they seem to get 
closer to the expected values when I increase the sample size.

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