[Tutor] Determining periodicity of rand.randint()

[bob gailer]

Tony Cappellini wrote:
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>
> Has anyone ever measured how random (or deterministic) a given 
> sequence of numbers generated by rand.randint() are?
>
> Using these arguments for rand.randint(0, 10000000 )
> if a program which calls rand.randint() runs for 10 hours (or a few 
> days), will it keep generating a repeatable set of numbers at some 
> point? I'm trying to understand the periodicity (or lack of) of the 
> numbers generated by rand.randint()
random uses AFAIK the Mersenne Twister algorithm. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_twister


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