I have an idea to test the effectiveness of a random number generator, generate 15mb file of random numbers and compress it. The files that get the worst compression are the files that were generated with the best random number generator. With some bad random number generators, the larger the file, the better the compression. It would be interesting to see what different random number generation routines and different compression algorithms produced in compression ratio.

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