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April 7, 2015 18:33
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Testing to see if the to_i(16)/modulo of SHA256 has a uniform distribution
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h = {} | |
1_000_000.times do |i| | |
puts i if (i % 1_000 == 0) | |
str = (0...16).map { (65 + rand(26)).chr }.join | |
digest = (Digest::SHA256.new << str).to_s | |
num = digest.to_i(16) % 100 | |
h[num] ||= 0 | |
h[num] += 1 | |
end | |
h.values.inject(0) {|s,n| s + n } / h.values.size.to_f #=> 10000.0 | |
module Enumerable | |
def sum | |
return self.inject(0){|accum, i| accum + i } | |
end | |
def mean | |
return self.sum / self.length.to_f | |
end | |
def sample_variance | |
m = self.mean | |
sum = self.inject(0){|accum, i| accum + (i - m) ** 2 } | |
return sum / (self.length - 1).to_f | |
end | |
def standard_deviation | |
return Math.sqrt(self.sample_variance) | |
end | |
end | |
h.values.standard_deviation #=> 96.69550249117175 |
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