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- From: poynor@david.wheaton.edu (George V. Poynor)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
- Subject: Re: Looking for random-number generator
- Keywords: Random
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.212315.2379@wheaton.wheaton.edu>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 21:23:15 GMT
- References: <tregilli.724351639@msi.umn.edu>
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- In article <tregilli.724351639@msi.umn.edu> tregilli@s21.msi.umn.edu (Ian Lee Tregillis [Astro]) writes:
- >Greetings,
- >
- > I'm not a regular reader of this group,
- >but I did look in the FAQ before deciding to post
- >my request:
- >
- > I'm looking for a decent random-number
- >generator in Fortran. (By 'decent' I mean one
- >where a pseudo-random sequence won't repeat
- >before at least 1000 samples.) This is probably
-
- This wouldn't be a random number
- generator, would it? A sequence
- is (pseudo-)random if over the
- length of the sequence the distribution
- of values approaches a uniform
- distribution.
- --
- geo...
-
-
- >something that real programmers learn to do before
- >age 10, but I'm obviously nothing of the sort.
- >Anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone could give
- >me a hint or tell me where to look.
- >
- > Please respond by email to:
- > tregilli@s1.msi.umn.edu
- > or
- > treg0001@student.tc.umn.edu
- >
- >Many thanks in advance,
- > Ian "Magnetic Moment" Tregillis
- > Physics and Mathematics undergrad, U of MN, TC
-
-
- --
- George V. Poynor
- --
- poynor@david.wheaton.edu
-