A Random Question

[pier4r]

(06-10-2017 12:57 PM)John Keith Wrote:  HP50's internal PRNG code is beginning to look a bit old-fashioned.

While I welcome your suggestion to david that is quite skilled in sysRPL, I don't get the "old fashioned" part. Given that the 50g is not used for security (well, I could save my passwords there... nah, the keyboard is not so fast), its PRNG should be good enough for all the needed applications (math, math explorations, games, etc..) or not?

And if not, why not?

Given also the fact that one won't realistically generate a lot of random numbers in series (I guess an upper limit would be 50 thousand or 100 thousand, that should take many days to be produced).