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SubjectRe: /dev/random vs. /dev/urandom
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On 10 Jan 2005, at 14:03, Paulo Marques wrote:

>> In the first place, the problem was to display the error of using
>> an ANDing operation to truncate a random number. In the limit,
>> one could AND with 0 and show that all randomness has been removed.
>
> Not really.. you just get a perfect random uniform distribution if the
> range [0..0] :)

I would say that a sample space (omega) of one unique element cannot be
considered entirely random. For that if you perform the random
experiment, you will always get that unique sample, and thus p(Sample)
= p(Omega) = 1.

Let Omega = { 0 }, thus p(Omega) = p(0) = 1, which I wouldn't consider
random at all.

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