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Pseudorandomness — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. 256 consecutive pairs from xₙ₊₁ = 137xₙ + 187 mod 256. Consecutive outputs of a linear congruential generator plotted as points of a square, falling on a small family of evenly spaced parallel lines.

    The planes a recurrence cannot leave

    One multiplication and one addition, taken modulo a fixed number, produce a sequence that passes for random one value at a time. Taken two or three at a time it does not, and the reason is a whole-number relation that pins every point onto one of a small family of parallel lines.

    rung 1 · computation

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