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tucnak
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Claude Shannon's randomness-guessing machine
I did a couple runs without thinking much about it, and the computer never got more than 25%. I guess 0000 and 1111 don't feel random, but work pretty well. Probably by random chance is only 1/8 or 12.5%. In other words it will happen all the time.
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