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Article #790Re: Random numbers
From: Richard A. O'Keefe
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 1990 06:46
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 1990 06:46
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In article <483@keele.keele.ac.uk>, cca04@.uk.ac.keele (P.J. Mitchell) writes:
> How do I generate this accuracy from the 15 bit C rand routine that
> the Sequent man pages say is used?
Don't.
Check "man random" to see if you have the BSD random number generator
and "man drand48" to see if you have the AT&T random number generator.
Check books like "Numerical Recipes" for random number generators and
look in back issues of journals like "Applied Statistics".
Look in Knuth Vol 2 ("Numerical Recipes" provides Fortran code for at
least one of the methods he describes, one of the better ones).
--
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!virtue!comp.vuw.ac.nz!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Random numbers Message-ID: <3464@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 24 Jul 90 06:46:04 GMT References: <483@keele.keele.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.lang.fortran Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 16