RE: VMs: Slightly modified VMS generator output

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- John Grove <John@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I don't get it, Jeff. This does not look like VMS
> to me. There are no
> words in the VMS that look like iiiny or ochet or
> fockor - and I doubt there
> are any shc, eesy, or roksh either. A couple of
> these might actually look
> like VMS - but it looks like a very chaotic shot in
> the dark when it
> happens.
> 
> 	John.

John is right. It is in fact not difficult to
generate text that can hardly be distinguished
from the VMs, as we've seen on the list a few
months ago (from at least two people). One way
of doing it can be found in Bennett's book,
which was also quoted:

> Bennett, W.R.: Scientific and Engineering
> Problem Solving with the Computer. Englewood
> Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1976

This can be done using a random number generator,
which does not prove that the VMs text is meaningless.
Quite the contrary:
The RNG output does not have certain properties
that the VMs has (long-range correlations, as
shown by Mark Perakh and Gabriel Landini).

Still more work to be done ;-/

Best wishes,
 Rene

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