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: 103376,5291fa0ea59b8b29 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: geert@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl (Geert Bosch) Subject: Re: Random Number Generation Date: 1996/10/07 Message-ID: <53ak10$3ia@fozzie.sun3.iaf.nl>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 188402826 references: <52uaj7$e9s@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk> organization: La Calandre Infortunee newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Dr J Parker (jp3@rl.ac.uk) wrote: `` Another simple example: Suppose you have a high quality random number generator R1 in the range 0 .. 1023 and you want to turn it into a high quality random number generator R2 in the range 0 .. 2. '' This is not a simple example. It is not possible to write an Ada program that does convert R1 to R2 and is guaranteed to finish in finite time. Regards, Geert -- E-Mail: geert@sun3.iaf.nl ``I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.'' Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943