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From: | "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu> |
Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp |
Subject: | Re: Random numbers/George |
Date: | Wed, 04 Jun 1997 14:14:47 -0400 |
Organization: | Cornell University |
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Alan Wilson wrote: > It sounds like to me that DJGPP doesnt have a truly random generator > then. > "Informal" random numbers are nice but it would be better if we could > generate truly random numbers where the frequency of all numbers were > the same... i guess ignorance is indeed bliss. this has nothing to do with DJGPP. as has been pointed out very clearly in previous responses to you, all computer generated random numbers are pseudo-random. (by the way, the only random distribution is _not_ the unifrom distribution.) -- Sinan
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