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From: Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch (Mats Weber)
Subject: Re: Random Number Generation
Date: 1996/10/03
Date: 1996-10-03T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Mats.Weber-0310961944550001@mlma27.elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52uaj7$e9s@newton.cc.rl.ac.uk


>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.

[...]

The problem here is that you rarely have a high quality generator on all
bits of the result. Generators usually are high quality on their most
significant bits, and it is very important to use the leftmost bits of the
original generator during the range reduction.




  reply	other threads:[~1996-10-03  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-02  0:00 Random Number Generation  Dr J Parker
1996-10-03  0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1996-10-07  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
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2010-12-30 10:43 Random number generation Mart van de Wege
2010-12-30 10:54 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-12-30 12:11   ` Mart van de Wege
2010-12-30 11:34 ` Niklas Holsti
2010-12-30 11:53   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-30 12:25     ` Mart van de Wege
2010-12-30 15:29       ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-30 15:37         ` Mart van de Wege
2010-12-30 11:51 ` Brian Drummond
2010-12-30 12:16   ` Mart van de Wege
2010-12-30 13:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-30 13:22   ` Niklas Holsti
2010-12-30 13:39     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-12-30 13:30   ` Mart van de Wege
2010-12-31  3:14 ` Gene
2010-07-13 12:45 tonyg
2010-07-13 12:50 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2010-07-13 12:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-07-13 13:17 ` Thomas Løcke
2010-07-13 16:07 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-13 20:33   ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-13 23:02     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-14  4:42       ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-15 19:01         ` tonyg
2003-09-26  7:14 random " christoph.grein
2003-09-26  7:00 Andrew
2003-09-26  7:35 ` tmoran
2003-09-26 17:58   ` Andrew
2003-09-26 19:25   ` Andrew
2003-09-26 19:35     ` chris
2003-09-26 21:44     ` tmoran
2003-09-27  1:40     ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-27  4:48       ` Andrew
1997-12-19  0:00 Mok-kong Shen
1998-01-02  0:00 ` Mok-kong Shen
1998-01-02  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-13  0:00 Random Number Generation parker
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-10  0:00  Dr J Parker
1996-10-12  0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-12  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-10-10  0:00  Dr J Parker
1996-09-23  0:00 Nigel J. Tracey
1996-09-23  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Nigel J. Tracey
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-03  0:00   ` Nigel J. Tracey
1996-09-25  0:00 ` James_Rogers
1996-09-26  0:00   ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-10-01  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-30  0:00 `  Dr J Parker
1996-10-01  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-01  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
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