Random number tests in Python

Ilja Gerhardt, ilja@quantumlah.org, http://gerhardt.ch. 2011

This implements the NIST random number tests in Python.

Please install argparse, to have a nice wrapper around everything. As expected, SciPy and NumPy are needed.

Files in this directory:

• randtest.py - the modules which perform the random tests
• testrandom.py - the wrapper around, for easy interfacing, usage: try --help
• README - this file
• data.pi.bin - 10^6 binary digits of Pi in binary format
• data.pi.txt - 10^6 binary digits of Pi in txt format
• data.pi.sht - 25000 binary digits of Pi in txt format

Unfortunately the tests 10,11,12 are very slow, this is because of the tallying of large bitstrings over and over again. I will try to implement a SWIG version, such that timing is improved.

2016-12-29

Port to py3 and push to github. You'll need numpy and scipy.

Quickstart

cat data.pi.sht | ./testrandom.py --join --test 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 17