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This task might be more interesting if the measured probabilities were displayed every (log n) runs (i.e. at 10, 100, 1000, etc.), to show the rate of convergence towards the expected hit ratio. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 02:37, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
== "Random" vs. "Pseudorandom" ==
Not one solution on this page (at least among those that I have been able to read; I admit that J, for example, reads like Greek to me) uses actual random numbers. They all use pseudorandom numbers of one stripe or another. This distinction is more important than ever with the advent of '''actual''' random number services online (Random.org, LavaRnd, and HotBits, among others), one might reasonably take the task specification literally and mark every solution as incorrect. What I have done instead is to change the text of the task from "generate a million items ''randomly'' subject to" into "generate a million items ''randomly'' (or, more likely, ''pseudorandomly'') subject to". I think this clarification makes things "right". Thoughts? --[[User:Balrog|Balrog]] 17:25, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
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