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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: random number generator
Message-ID: <4683@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 31 Jan 91 09:09:58 GMT
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In article <4682@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
> Oh dear.  Did the version of RANDOM.PL I left at Edinburgh *really* omit
> the attribution?  The algorithm used there for generating uniform random
> floats is algorithm AS 163 from the journal Applied Statistics.
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Oops.  That should have been "183".  I'm quite sure that the attribution
was included in at least one of the versions of random.pl that I wrote at
Edinburgh.  There's a hardcover book of algorithms from Applied Statistics
and I think the algorithm was reprinted in that.
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