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1 total messages Started by mglacy Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:59

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Author: mglacy
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 19:59

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I've been trying out a new RNG code. It appears to yield  a very
nice random u.r.v (0,1).  (At least it looks fine under k-s tests,
which is sufficient for my purposes.)  However,  when I use it  to
generate uniformly distributed random *integers*, it produces lousy
results.  I've just been multiplying each random real by 
some N, and then truncating the result to an integer. To make
the range be 1..N, I've then been adding 1 to the truncated result.

Any suggestions on why might be going wrong here?  Is this to
be expected?

Thanks.
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