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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,5891e7e61ca0dcd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-31 00:25:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!not-for-mail From: "Bobby D. Bryant" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada implementation of Mersenne Twister (MT19937) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:15:30 -0600 Organization: dis- Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: dial-53-34.ots.utexas.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu 1012464974 7248 128.83.57.130 (31 Jan 2002 08:16:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@utexas.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 08:16:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.11.1.93 (Unix) X-Comment-To: "Christoph Grein" Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19415 Date: 2002-01-31T02:15:30-06:00 List-Id: On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 00:55:00 -0600, Christoph Grein wrote: >> From: Preben Randhol >> >> On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:00:25 +0100, Christoph & Ursula Grein wrote: >> > I've an implementation together with a test driver. It produces the >> > prescribed result. Whoever is interested I will send. >> >> A random number generator that produces the prescribed result doesn't >> sound very good ;-) > > I see your smiley on this, but seriously, you can get unpredictable > random numbers only from physical devices like radioactive decay etc. FWIW, sometimes in simulation work it's important to be able to get the same sequence of pseudo-random numbers all over again. Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas