Re: [Math] Feature development model

2016-01-10 Thread Phil Steitz
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:48 PM, Gilles wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 18:42:06 +0100, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > >> Le 06/01/2016 15:56, Gilles a écrit : >> >>> Hi. >>> >>> I've reread this article (which IIRC was advertised on this list some >>> time ago): >>> http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-b

Re: [Math] Next version(s)? (Was: [...] Putting MATH_3_X branch to post-release state.)

2016-01-10 Thread Phil Steitz
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Luc Maisonobe wrote: > Le 06/01/2016 15:19, Gilles a écrit : > > Hi. > > Hi Gilles, > > > > > On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:47:52 -, l...@apache.org wrote: > >> Putting MATH_3_X branch to post-release state. > >> > >> This change is only done in case a new release sh

Re: [Math] Add 64-bits based RNG (Was: [Math] New base class for all RNGs)

2016-01-10 Thread Phil Steitz
On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > Relevant excerpt of previous posts: > > [...] >>> >>> Something implicit in "BitStreamGenerator": the maximum number of >>> bits is 32 (cf. return type of "next(int)" and the ubiquitous use >>> of hard-coded "32". >>> >>> What about the poss

[Math] Setting the state of RNGs (a.k.a. seeding)

2016-01-10 Thread Gilles
Hi. This post is related to: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-1314 Problem: Different RNGs have different ways to manage their internal state (which is updated at each call to the "next()" function). Some use one, or two, "int" (or "long") values, or arrays (of varying sizes). This

Re: [Math] Add 64-bits based RNG (Was: [Math] New base class for all RNGs)

2016-01-10 Thread Thomas Neidhart
On 01/10/2016 05:09 AM, Gilles wrote: > Hi. > > Relevant excerpt of previous posts: > >>> [...] >>> >>> Something implicit in "BitStreamGenerator": the maximum number of >>> bits is 32 (cf. return type of "next(int)" and the ubiquitous use >>> of hard-coded "32". >>> >>> What about the possibilit