Nemo's bash challenge for the day

[Martijn van Oosterhout]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 10:14:17AM +1100, Michael Still wrote:
> PS: How good is the bash random? See the attachment output.count for a
> summary of 100,000 numbers between 1 and 10 being generated with the
> default seed. It's probably good enough for most people.

> 1: 9964
> 2: 10009
> 3: 9978
> 4: 10015
> 5: 9997
> 6: 10020
> 7: 10011
> 8: 10008
> 9: 10006
> 10: 9992

You do realise that if they were all exactly 10,000 that would be a definite
sign of non-randomness!
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