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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Random Number Generation
Date: 1996/10/13
Date: 1996-10-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.845244462@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 13OCT96.18283680@enh.nist.gov


Geert said

""I don't say it is not possible to present a correct algorithm
to convert R1 to R2. Such a correct algorithm just is not guaranteed to
finish in finite time.
"

Yes, this is guaranteed to finish in finite time if you are using a
compiler that meets the requirements of the numerics annex with regard
to the random number generator performance.





  reply	other threads:[~1996-10-13  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-10-13  0:00 Random Number Generation parker
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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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
1996-10-10  0:00 Random Number Generation  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
1996-10-02  0:00  Dr J Parker
1996-10-03  0:00 ` Mats Weber
1996-10-07  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-23  0:00 Nigel J. Tracey
1996-09-23  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Nigel J. Tracey
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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