From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58817e35b044fec5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Nick Roberts" Subject: Re: searhing for Marsaglia's random Date: 1998/02/13 Message-ID: <01bd3815$fe7fd0e0$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 324606479 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34D756FA.78C7AAB9@BNP.Fr> <6b8b3l$s4i$1@uuneo.neosoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Organization: UUNet UK server (post doesn't reflect views of UUNet UK) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Knuth, in one* of his wonderful Four Volumes of Enlightenment and Wisdom, gives an algorithm for random numbers. It's simple, but it works. I'm no expert on the subject, and I don't know it's particular relative strengths and weaknesses -- I suspect others will be quick to the fray on this -- but maybe worth a try? * The second one, on numerical methods, I think. -- == Nick Roberts ================================================ == Croydon, UK =========================== == ================ == Proprietor, ThoughtWing Software ========== == Independent Software Development Consultant ====== == Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com ==== == Voicemail & Fax +44 181-405 1124 === == == == I live not in myself, but I become == === Portion of that around me; and to me == ==== High mountains are a feeling, but the hum == ======= Of human cities torture. =========== -- Byron [Childe Harold] Robert I. Eachus wrote in article ... [all about RN algos]