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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Lotto simulation Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:40:17 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <77cc4476-8c57-481b-afb9-8f53f8b16e37@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 13:40:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="23dab0694e4174fdc880833ec67fa650"; logging-data="17226"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ky1ozbB2wHKtOc7/OnpgL" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:2Skrzjr4Bb1oIy3ZayElAl8V3pc= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20361 Date: 2014-06-16T15:40:17+02:00 List-Id: Le 16/06/2014 13:15, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de a écrit : > Well, do you think the Annotated Reference Manual > needs a > clarification? It explicitely tells > > A sufficiently long sequence of random numbers obtained by successive > calls to Random is approximately uniformly distributed over the range of > the result subtype. OK, maybe it's another issue, and it's not my domain of knowledge. But I certainly remember that the decision to provide separate discrete and floating generators was deliberate and for good reasons. Maybe Randy remembers where the discussions were archived? -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr