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From: jp3@rl.ac.uk ( Dr J Parker)
Subject: Re: Random Number Generation
Date: 1996/10/10
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organization: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxon, UK
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Date: 1996-10-10T00:00:00+00:00
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I wrote

-In under 5 miinutes you can generate N = 3 * 10**8 random numbers on
-a PC.  expect 10**8 0's, 10**8 1's 10**8 2's , with stnd deviation
-about 10**4 and error = 10**8 * 1.333/1024.0.

meaning of course:

error = 3 * 10**8 * 1.333/1024.0 in one of the 3 bins.