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Random number generator in HP 30S
02-19-2017, 09:32 PM
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RE: Random number generator in HP 30S
Thanks, Bob. It would therefore seem that nobody knows what the 30S's pseudo-random number generator is. However, is there a way (without being John Nash) to take the integer sequence generated by RANDM*2^16 and find that sequence's generator?

Meanwhile, it should probably be noted somewhere that the RANDM function in the HP 30S should NOT be used for anything that requires a large cycle. RANDM only outputs 65536 different values. Therefore using it, for example, to pick a winning sweepstakes ticket number between 1 and 1 million would be grossly unfair, since over 93% of those ticket numbers would have zero probability of being picked.

Strange that RANDM*65536 generates integers that alternate between even and odd, whereas RANDMI(0,65535) does not.

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