🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.lang.eiffel
Article #1095

Re: Need a random number generator

#1095
From: Matt Kennel
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:12
23 lines
1524 bytes
mb108@cs.city.ac.uk (omo ADELAKUN T K) writes:
: Hi folks,
: I need a (pseudo-)random number generator for use in a tester program
: for a queuing system. The Eiffel libraries don't appear to have such
: a class - that is, according to grep. I can't see anything that looks
: like a library of binaries against I can run nm. (I'm working remotely
: from the labs and have no access to manuals.) 

Try using the random number generators in Numerical Recipes---
second edition ONLY!   Apparently the first edition ones weren't very
good, and they replaced many of them.

You'll have to translate them yourself until there's a Numerical
Recipes in Sather.

: Thanx++,			-- Oh, dear..! That syntax!
: Toyin.

--
-Matt Kennel  		mbk@inls1.ucsd.edu
-Institute for Nonlinear Science, University of California, San Diego
-*** AD: Archive for nonlinear dynamics papers & programs: FTP to
-***     lyapunov.ucsd.edu, username "anonymous".
Technical Details
Message-ID: <1ii2rgINN5vd@network.ucsd.edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!lyapunov.ucsd.edu!mbk
References: <1993Jan7.082202.7901@city.cs>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!lyapunov.ucsd.edu!mbk
From: mbk@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Matt Kennel)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel
Subject: Re: Need a random number generator
Date: 7 Jan 1993 20:12:32 GMT
Organization: Institute For Nonlinear Science, UCSD
Lines: 23
Message-ID: <1ii2rgINN5vd@network.ucsd.edu>
References: <1993Jan7.082202.7901@city.cs>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3