Re: [Jakarta Commons Wiki] Updated: MathWishList

[Mark R. Diggory]

Like I said in the past, I highly recommend working with Paul Houle 
(http://www.honeylocust.com/RngPack/) to get these random number 
generators integrated into the math library. He has stated to me in the 
past that he is willing to relicense them under the Apache license. As 
well I beleive that with the BSD being compatable with Apache licensing, 
there would be little stopping us from integrating them ourselves as a 
derivative work.

-Mark
Kim van der Linde wrote:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: 2004-09-01T23:28:45 Editor: PhilSteitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

+ * Add 0-1 random number generators. -- Not sure what is being
requested here. RandomData.nextInt(0, 1) will generate random 0-1
values. Are we talking about random binary strings?

There are a ton of different ways to generate pseudorandom numbers, all 
have in common that they are kind of ciclic and have a certain 
predictability. In general, faster pseudorandom algorithms do have 
shorter cicles and are better predictable, while better pseudorandom 
algorithms require more computation time. The build in JAVA pseudo 
random generator is a laugh, and not to be used for any serious 
randomnisations....

Kim
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Mark Diggory
Software Developer
Harvard MIT Data Center
http://www.hmdc.harvard.edu
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