From: Larry Bakst <pleb@iridescent.org>
To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk
Subject: Re: RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ]
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 14:55:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p06100502bcebe585f648@iridescent.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pdy988306110402bcebb015c2cb@[209.128.98.50]>
I would suggest Mersenne Twister for all random numbers which is located here:
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/%7Em-mat/MT/emt.html
leb
>Zsh's RANDOM function is deficient. I propose a new builtin a la the lesson learned in the Java world.
>
>http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/excursion-random.html
>
>Dave
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Lawrence E. Bakst
pleb@iridescent.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 21:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-01 18:01 zsh malloc bug Dave Yost
2004-06-02 9:32 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-02 18:21 ` Dave Yost
2004-06-08 13:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-08 18:09 ` RANDOMSMALL <range> [ <seed> ] Dave Yost
2004-06-08 21:20 ` Peter Stephenson
2004-06-08 21:51 ` PATCH: " Peter Stephenson
2004-06-08 21:55 ` Larry Bakst [this message]
2004-06-16 19:13 ` zsh malloc bug Dave Yost
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