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- From: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: random number generator
- Keywords: pseudo-random, C , uniform, normal
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.092934.23335@cl.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 09:29:34 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.103659.11820@kth.se> <1992Jul27.152841.10170@midway.uchicago.edu> <1126@kepler1.rentec.com>
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- Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK
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- In article <1126@kepler1.rentec.com>, andrew@rentec.com (Andrew
- Mullhaupt) writes:
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- |> Why don't we make RNG a FAQ for sci.math.stat?
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- It's not making it a FAQ that's the problem - it's finding a GAA (Generally
- Agreed Answer)!
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- Some of my recent replies are based on work that has been published in 1992,
- and I frequently hear from other workers about important results that I had
- missed (often in the most bizarre journals). The area may not be large, but
- it is awfully confused.
-
-
- Nick Maclaren
- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory,
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