Werner Smekal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hi Alan,
>
>> We need a volunteer to step forward to change example 21 in C so that it
>> uses a simple random number generator that is internal to the example
>> (perhaps something extremely simple but reasonably effective if you pick a
>> "good" seed such as the middle square method described at
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle-square_method) and also so that
>> execution times are not made part of PLplot labels.  Once these changes were
>> propagated to the rest of the front ends, this should hopefully make example
>> 21 results uniform for all front-ends.
>
> Coincidently, I was thinking about a RNG provided by the PLplot library. 
>   If nobody uses it except our example 21, no problem, since the code of 
> RNGs is rather short, so no harm done here, and maybe some users find it 
> useful though. A very good one (passed the diehard test), although maybe 
> not good enough for encryption (don't think that will be a problem :), 
> is the Mersenne Twister RNG
>

Would it be better to just put a simple PRNG into example 21?  PLplot is
a plotting library and I think it is better to focus on that.  


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