From: Lutz Donnerhacke <lutz@iks-jena.de>
Subject: Re: Ada2005 random
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 14:26:44 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2003-04-04T14:26:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnb8r5h2.ov.lutz@taranis.iks-jena.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b6jsvb$kgb$1@news.uni-stuttgart.de
* Peter Hermann wrote:
> Rodrigo Garc?a <rodrigo.garcia.ARROBA.epfl.ch> wrote:
>> Pick a random number from Integer and do a "mod" operation.
> well: you won the first round :-)
No.
> instantiation of discrete_random with an actual generic parameter
> having a huge range of values, such as integer or natural or positive
> and then mod,abs should sufficiently satisfy my statistic conscience.
Using "mod" destroys the uniformness of your random data an therefore will
not meet most of the assumed randomness preconditions.
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-03 12:27 Ada2005 random David C. Hoos, Sr.
2003-04-03 12:39 ` Peter Hermann
2003-04-03 22:10 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-04-04 7:43 ` Peter Hermann
2003-04-04 10:21 ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-04-04 12:11 ` Stuart Palin
2003-04-04 14:25 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-04-04 21:51 ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-04-05 18:34 ` Samuel Tardieu
2003-04-05 6:46 ` Martin Krischik
2003-04-07 21:07 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-04-13 14:56 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-04-13 21:58 ` Mark Biggar
2003-04-04 12:20 ` Stuart Palin
2003-04-07 7:26 ` Jean-Etienne Doucet
2003-04-07 8:09 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-04-04 8:27 `
2003-04-04 12:14 ` Peter Hermann
2003-04-04 14:26 ` Lutz Donnerhacke [this message]
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2003-04-05 7:29 ` Pascal Obry
2003-04-05 9:00 ` tmoran
2003-04-05 17:02 ` Pascal Obry
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2003-04-02 13:27 Peter Hermann
2003-04-02 13:44 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-04-03 9:56 ` Peter Hermann
2003-04-03 10:13 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-04-04 3:50 ` Steve
2003-04-04 14:30 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
2003-04-05 3:02 ` Steve
2003-04-04 4:33 ` Christoph Grein
2003-04-06 15:44 `
2003-04-05 0:14 ` Jeffrey Carter
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