Hi all,
I have a question about pseudo random number generation.
My code currently employs a standard pseudo random number generator
developed by Knuth,
which is basically a black box to me. Since
1) My code spends most of the time generating the random integers it
needs.
2) Most of the times i simply need a pseudo random integer (PRI)
between 0 and 3.
I was wondering whether I can take advantage of the reduced size of
the set of my random numbers (4).
I mean: does the set size matter? Would it be worth programming an
algorithm specifically devoted to
randomly choosing one number out of the set {0,1,2,3}? Would this
algorithm be much faster than
a general purpose algorithm?
What kind of algorithm would you suggest?
Thanks a lot in advance
Francesco
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