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collection60@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Random data CAN be compressed, occassionally. For example, a pure
random file will sometimes contain the string "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA".

IMO no existing PRNG will ever produce such a sequence. Even when the frequency of every character, or character sequence, in English texts is taken into account, the generated sequences of the same character will be restricted to a much shorter length.

DoDi
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