Hideki Kato wrote: > I didn't against you, Álvaro, rather I just made a caution for > programmers who will use your pseudo code as is. :) > > First, I prefer SFMT (SIMD-oriented Fast Mersenne Twister) rather > than integer pseudo random number generators in practice where the > quality of play-out is important. Modern processors execute floating > operations as fast as interger ones and > picked = mt_rand() * (double) num_candidates; > is the simplest and safe.
Please note that for uniformity purists this method has exactly the same problem as good_quality_int_rand() % num_candidates. /Gunnar _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
