On Thursday 09 March 2006 17:47, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 9 mrt 2006, at 18:38, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> >
> > Indeed, it isn't a real random number generator and in fact this is
> > a good thing, otherwise you wouldn't be able to reproduce any
> > behaviour with a Pseudo RNG. The fact it is Pseudo
On 9 mrt 2006, at 18:38, Vincent Snijders wrote:
As I noticed, when initialized the randseed with the same value,
the whole rand values in the chain will be totally identical,
which I'm afraid is rather far from what we might expect from a
"real" random number generator!
Indeed, it isn't
Antal wrote:
As I noticed, when initialized the randseed with the same value, the
whole rand values in the chain will be totally identical, which I'm
afraid is rather far from what we might expect from a "real" random
number generator!
Indeed, it isn't a real random number generator and in fa
Hi,
I am not a mathematician myself, but I predict that unless you make
extensive tests over a very long period of time you will never find any
corelations!
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 13:39 +0100, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 6 mrt 2006, at 13:37, Antal wrote:
>
> >> The Mersenne Twister Free Pascal
On Monday 06 March 2006 12:37, Antal wrote:
> > The Mersenne Twister Free Pascal uses is one of the best PRNGs
> > known today, it just has to be used the right way. But calling it
> > from several threads and "randomly" overwriting its state array is
> > definitely not the right way to use it.
>
On 6 mrt 2006, at 13:39, Jonas Maebe wrote:
And then you have to compare the random numbers generated in one
such a program run, not between different runs.
And note that even then you may get two times the same number after
each other. There is nothing wrong with that though, since if tha
On 6 mrt 2006, at 13:37, Antal wrote:
The Mersenne Twister Free Pascal uses is one of the best PRNGs known
today, it just has to be used the right way. But calling it from
several threads and "randomly" overwriting its state array is
definitely not the right way to use it.
I'm disappointed, be
