Le 31/12/2011 15:50, Sébastien Brisard a écrit :
> Hi,
> In rev 1226041, I committed a patch proposed by Christian (see
> MATH-692). Unfortunately, I didn't notice that this patch causes the
> failure of Well1024aTest. Since this morning, I've been looking into
> that failure. I don't think that any of Christian's proposed
> modifications is to be incriminated. Rather, I'm wondering whether
> Well1024a is reliable. Indeed, varying the seed in
> Well1024aTest.makeGenerator() causes failure of various unit tests
>   - SEED = 100 causes testNextPoissonConsistency() to fail,
>   - SEED = 1000 causes testNextIntPositiveRange(),
> testNextLongNegativeRange() and testNextLongPositiveRange() to fail,
> while *all* tests pass with SEED = 1001. I think this probability of
> failure is well above the 0.001 threshold of the chi-square test.
> 
> I'm not very familiar with this part of CM, and would very much like
> to know what you think.

I am sorry not to have any time to look at this these days.
Well 1024 has been checked with respect to the reference C
implementation though. Perhaps we should check it again.

Luc

> 
> NOTE: in rev 1226096, I set the SEED to 1001, so as to make Gump stop
> complaining. Obivously, this is a very dirty trick.
> 
> Sébastien
> 
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