Re: Random numbers generation
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Thomas Walter wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 00:22, Stuart Prescott wrote:
>>The GSL documentation talks a bit about the different generators
>>available and I highly recommend some of the references therein (Park &
>>Miller and L'Ecuyer in particular).
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/manual/gsl-ref_17.html
> Just for completeness to the random generators mentioned above.
> If your system has '/dev/random' and/or '/dev/urandom' then you have
> also a good random to read from. This is feed by several non
> deterministic data available on your system. The more usage and traffic
> you have, the better.
Those random generators have to be avoided, except in very specific
cases as they are not reproducable; there is no way to replay them.
Yannick
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