Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-07 Thread Petr Savicky
On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 09:37:22PM +0200, Petr Savicky wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0530, Ron Michael wrote: > > Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found > > that this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's > > subtractive random nu

Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-06 Thread Petr Savicky
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 11:47:49PM +0530, Ron Michael wrote: > Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found that > this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's subtractive > random number generator algorithm (found here: > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-

Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
.org" Sent: Saturday, 6 August 2011 1:24 AM Subject: Re: [R] Question on RNG On 11-08-05 2:17 PM, Ron Michael wrote: Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found that this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random numbe

Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-05 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote: > As far as I know, Microsoft doesn't publish the code for their RNG. Naming > it is not enough -- implementations that differ in subtle details will give > different streams. Sometimes these subtle software differences are known by another

Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-05 Thread Ron Michael
urday, 6 August 2011 1:24 AM Subject: Re: [R] Question on RNG On 11-08-05 2:17 PM, Ron Michael wrote: > Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found that > this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's subtractive > random number genera

Re: [R] Question on RNG

2011-08-05 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 11-08-05 2:17 PM, Ron Michael wrote: Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found that this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random number generator algorithm (found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.random.as

[R] Question on RNG

2011-08-05 Thread Ron Michael
Hi all, I have happened to work on MS .NET for sometime now, and I found that this language offers RNG what is called as Donald E. Knuth's subtractive random number generator algorithm (found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.random.aspx#Y12).   Here I was wondering whether R