Alan W. Irwin wrote: >Since it appears you can implement this internally (i.e., no additional >external libraries are involved) I encourage you to go ahead two weeks from >now. From Wikipedia, the Mersenne Twister RNG is a better choice than the >historical but rather flawed middle-square method that I mentioned. Also, >your idea of putting a RNG within the PLplot library rather than example 21 >is a good one. I have required RNG's for past plotting needs, I am sure >many of our users have similar needs. Furthermore, the interactive example >17 could use a library RNG as well as example 21. Finally, it means we only >have to implement a binding interface to the C version of the RNG for each >of our bindings. That is actually much simpler than implementing the same >RNG in many different languages for example 21 (and 17). > > Hm, I should read more carefully before posting ;). I understand now that Werner wants to make the Mersenne Twister part of the PLplot library. That does sound useful. I retract my previous mail.
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