[ILUG] how to answer the question: "how random?"

[Conor Daly]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 04:40:15PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
kevin lyda thought:
> how can i analyse a stream of numbers to see how random they are?
> does anyone have any web pages that discuss this?  i napped too much
> in stats - a bad course to take in the spring, even in buffalo it got
> too hot for stats around april...
> 
> i'm looking to compare the numbers returned from egd to the ones returned
> from /dev/random on linux (and maybe openbsd if i'm bored).

Errm,  so, how do I get numbers form /dev/random?  dd gives me ascii
garbage, so does cat.  Do I need to write a c proggie to read and what
should I read then?
 
Conor.
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