I came into this discussion late, so apologies if this has been mentioned.
Have you considered utilizing http://www.random.org ?
They might have something available that would work for a solution.
- Noel
At 04:58 PM 11/12/2008, you wrote:
Le 12 nov. 2008 à 23:41, Richard Gaskin a écrit (excerpts):
for pure science, probably not. But for getting work done in Rev,
maybe.
One not-so-marginal problem is the criticism of pernickery* referees
when you (try to) publish your results. They DO want pure science, and
usually ask how you did obtain your random numbers !
What is the application in question?
The application I'm developping presently is a general-purpose analyse
program of ecological data mostly designed for students training (but
it should be useful for "serious" work too). I don't want a good RNG
for THIS application only, it's to be used as a library for several
applications, mostly simulations in population biology and population
genetics, but also research of solutions of systems of equations by
processes like simulated annealing. And I suppose you will be glad to
hear that I find Revolution excellent to built such simulations, and
decently fast even without using externals. One quality of Revolution
is the ease to produce (among other things) a visual and animated view
of the progress of the simulation (progressive spreading and
diversification of genes across a geographic area with variable
climatic conditions, for instance). As a teacher, I like that, among
plenty of other qualities of Rev. As a researcher, I like also the
possibility to easy built quick-and-dirty, but efficient, programs to
solve problems when you meet them. And as an emeritus (hum,hum)
professor, I want to use some of the time suddently available to
replace my quick-and-dirty programs by well presented and well
structured applications. Made with Revolution, of course !
Jacques
* I went to the dictionary for this one ;o)
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