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- From: Dick Menninger <Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM>
- Subject: Re: Random numbers
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- Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 20:36:13 GMT
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- > ==========pstaite@vnet.ibm.com, 1/10/96==========
-
- > See Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" Vol II or "Numerical
- Recipies
- > in C" or some other decent algorithms book for a good pseudo random
- > number generator.
-
- Actually, his discussion, though the definitive discussion
- on mills, covers only half of the problem. How you map
- a mill value into a small integer range is also very important
- as is creating distinct random variables. See my post
- elsewhere in this thread for more details. Thinking that
- the mill was the whole problem was a curious blind spot
- that many good people suffered in common.
-
- Good Day
- Dick
- Dick.Menninger@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM
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