elitetroops
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Not sure if this was aimed at me, but this was pretty much my point with the post you quoted anyway. With "built in streakiness" as a flaw, which many have mentioned, I assumed that would mean a flaw in the code that makes a low roll more likely after another low roll than after a high roll. Didn't see any signs of this in my tests though.Series of random numbers will NATURALLY show streaks. A series of coin random coin flips won't be HTHTHTHTHT on into infinity; it will naturally have streaks.
But yes, if you ask your buddy to simulate 100 coin flips by writing a random sequence of H or T on a paper, then you actually flip a coin 100 times and write down the sequence on another paper, you can usually recognize the sequence derived from the real coin flips based on the fact that it shows more streaks. A person trying to simulate a random series will compensate when he feels there is too many in a row of one or the other result. A coin doesn't care.