On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 10:55:54AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote:
> i don't think you should use Monte Carlo since you really aren't
> sinmulating a system.  Monte Carlo simulations pick sensible random
> values from a defined frequency distribution and apply those to 
> part of a system.  your module would hopefully pick unsensible values
> too, and i don't think you'll need the frequency distribution.

Good point. It basically makes it easy to re-run rand() with the same seed.
It's up to the user to decide how to do sensible things with the output of
rand().

> i also don't think most people will know what "Monte Carlo" means.


> how about Test::RandomData or some such?

Test::Randomize ?

Nicholas Clark
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