On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 02:24 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > I wrote: > >> That said, looking around briefly, I came up with this paper > >> by L'Ecuyer et al that does seem to describe a decent > >> random generator with properties of split worked out: > > Derek Elkins wrote: > > According to the documentation > > That -is- what we have. > > No, we have a much older algorithm of L'Ecuyer. It has > a much smaller period - 2e18 vs. 3e51. Much less was > known about testing generator randomness at that time.
Yeah, my fault. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
