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Updated: To clarify what I meant by "obtuse".

(1) I'm not going to dig any more into your task; I could not care less what the task is. But if you happen to be developing a PRNG and you do find any patterns, then it IS a programming error. A common one, an important one, but a flaw nonetheless.

I am not and was not "developing a PRNG". I demonstrated a method--spectral testing--whereby the flaws in PRNGs can be detected quickly and simply without recourse to extensive numerical analysis.

Had you bothered to follow the link and read post, that would have been obvious, but I guess you'd rather hide behind your mis-assumptions.

(2) I downvoted you for your last sentence. I think your whole thread smacks of being frustrated, and you're letting it get the best of you. Think rationally, not emotionally, and you wouldn't be in this situation. This is a forum, and you brought your frustration to the forum. Don't tell us to shut up. I don't care how you vote my response, but keep the discourse civil, thanks.

I didn't tell any "us" to shut up. I asked you to refrain from snide remarks.

And you would contend that your post was rational, civil, unemotional?

Examine what is said, not who speaks.

Silence betokens consent.

Love the truth but pardon error.

Considered: Tanktalus: Delete: flamebait
Unconsidered: ysth: enough keep votes - Keep/Edit/Delete: 14/0/4

In reply to Re^4: In need of a Dumper that has no pretentions to being anything else. by BrowserUk
in thread In need of a Dumper that has no pretentions to being anything else. by BrowserUk

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