/* * randbitrun - check rand bit run lengths of the a55 generator * * Copyright (C) 1999 Landon Curt Noll * * Calc is open software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under * the terms of the version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License * as published by the Free Software Foundation. * * Calc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY * or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General * Public License for more details. * * A copy of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License is * distributed with calc under the filename COPYING-LGPL. You should have * received a copy with calc; if not, write to Free Software Foundation, Inc. * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. * * @(#) $Revision: 30.1 $ * @(#) $Id: randbitrun.cal,v 30.1 2007/03/16 11:09:54 chongo Exp $ * @(#) $Source: /usr/local/src/cmd/calc/cal/RCS/randbitrun.cal,v $ * * Under source code control: 1995/02/13 03:43:11 * File existed as early as: 1995 * * chongo /\oo/\ http://www.isthe.com/chongo/ * Share and enjoy! :-) http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/ */ /* * We will use randbit(1) to generate a stream if single bits. * The odds that we will have n bits the same in a row is 1/2^n. */ define randbitrun(run_cnt) { local i; /* index */ local max_run; /* longest run */ local long_run_cnt; /* number of runs longer than MAX_RUN */ local run; /* current run length */ local tally_sum; /* sum of all tally values */ local last; /* last random number */ local current; /* current random number */ local MAX_RUN = 18; /* max run we will keep track of */ local mat tally[1:MAX_RUN]; /* tally of length of a rise run of 'x' */ local mat prob[1:MAX_RUN]; /* prob[x] = probability of 'x' length run */ /* * parse args */ if (param(0) == 0) { run_cnt = 65536; } /* * run setup */ max_run = 0; /* no runs yet */ long_run_cnt = 0; /* no long runs set */ current = randbit(1); /* our first number */ run = 1; /* * compute the run length probabilities * * A bit run length of 'r' occurs with a probability of: * * 1/2^n; */ for (i=1; i <= MAX_RUN; ++i) { prob[i] = 1.0/(1< max_run) { max_run = run; } if (run > MAX_RUN) { ++long_run_cnt; } else { ++tally[run]; } /* start a new run */ current = randbit(1); run = 1; /* note the continuing run */ } else { ++run; } } /* determine the number of runs found */ tally_sum = matsum(tally) + long_run_cnt; /* * print the stats */ printf("rand runbit test used %d values to produce %d runs\n", run_cnt, tally_sum); for (i=1; i <= MAX_RUN; ++i) { printf("length=%d\tprob=%9.7f\texpect=%d \tcount=%d \terr=%9.7f\n", i, prob[i], round(tally_sum*prob[i]), tally[i], (tally[i] - round(tally_sum*prob[i]))/tally_sum); } printf("length>%d\t\t\t\t\tcount=%d\n", MAX_RUN, long_run_cnt); printf("max length=%d\n", max_run); }