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- From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
- Subject: Re: Need a random number generator
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:12:32 GMT
- Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
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- mb108@cs.city.ac.uk (omo ADELAKUN T K) writes:
- : Hi folks,
- : I need a (pseudo-)random number generator for use in a tester program
- : for a queuing system. The Eiffel libraries don't appear to have such
- : a class - that is, according to grep. I can't see anything that looks
- : like a library of binaries against I can run nm. (I'm working remotely
- : from the labs and have no access to manuals.)
-
- Try using the random number generators in Numerical Recipes---
- second edition ONLY! Apparently the first edition ones weren't very
- good, and they replaced many of them.
-
- You'll have to translate them yourself until there's a Numerical
- Recipes in Sather.
-
- : Thanx++, -- Oh, dear..! That syntax!
- : Toyin.
-
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- -Matt Kennel mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
- -Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
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