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From: "John Patton" <gimli21 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Random numbers again...
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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:43:13 PDT
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>From: Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>
>Subject: Re: Random numbers again...
>Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:11:13 -0400
>To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>
>amit wrote:
>
>> one comment : using only hundreds of seconds as seed in many cases 
might
>> not be good enough - if you run your program more than 100 times 
you'r
>> bound
>> to have (at least) two identical runs.
>
>I suggest you get "Numerical Recipies in C" from your library (or buy 
it, its
>worth having if you do any numerical computing).  There is a discussion 
of
>various forms of RNGs, standards for judging, creating one w/ a long 
period
>(2^32, under djgpp) and various forms.
>
>--
>Charles Krug, Jr.
>Application Engineer
>Pentek Corp
>1 Park Way
>Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458

Hi,

I actually prefer Algorithms in C by Sedgewick.

-John



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