There are industry standard tests for validating PRNG's which would
give you a scientifically relevant result. Note that, all of these
tests require quite a bit of data (megabytes or more ideally) to get
meaningful results.

http://stat.fsu.edu/pub/diehard/
http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/

--
Aaron Turner
http://synfin.net/

On 23 Mar 2006 04:20:24 -0000, davidribyrne (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]
<davidribyrne (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a tool or library for measuring data entropy? Pass it a string, it returns a score.
>
> Thanks,
> David Byrne
> davidribyrne (at) yahoo (dot) com [email concealed]
>
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