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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c63141fc031d911b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Knuth's random number generator References: <1105658456.885787.264050@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1105658456.885787.264050@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:14:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.48.108 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1105665249 63.186.48.108 (Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:14:09 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:14:09 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7750 Date: 2005-01-14T01:14:09+00:00 List-Id: brian.wichmann@bcs.org.uk wrote: > Has anybody implemented this in Ada? Is there some reason you're interested in that algorithm? Marsaglia's "universal" RNG, which passes stringent tests and is highly portable, is available with the PragmAda Reusable Components: http://home.earthlink.net/~jrcarter010/pragmarc.htm -- Jeff Carter "Help! Help! I'm being repressed!" Monty Python & the Holy Grail 67