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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2015 11:36:26 -0400
From:      Benjamin Kaduk <bjkfbsd@gmail.com>
To:        Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r280955 - in head/sys: modules/notrandom dev/notrandom
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On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org> wrote:

>
>
> Before someone makes a terrible mistake, I should point out that 4 is
> confirmed random, as cited here: https://xkcd.com/221/


But surely to be non-random we need an equal number of 1 and 0 bits, making
15 the clear choice.

-Ben



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