Re: MSFT and random numbers

From: Howard Kaikow (kaikow_at_standards.com)
Date: 02/21/04 

Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 08:36:51 -0500

THanx.

A number of folkes have raised questions about the quality of some of the
algorithms in Numerical Recipes in C, hope the random number algorithm is
not one of those.

There may be a paper on this at http://math.jpl.nasa.gov/nr/, but I cannot
seem to get to http://math.jpl.nasa.gov/ today. 

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"Mattias Sjögren" <mattias.dont.want.spam@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:%23jUbFeA%23DHA.2316@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Howard,
>
> >3. Random class in .NET.
>
>
http://sharedsourcecli.sscli.net/source/browse/sharedsourcecli/clr/src/bcl/system/random.cs
>
>
> >2. Randomize and Rnd in VB .NET
>
> Not that I know, but you may be able to disassemble the VB library and
> figure it out that way.
>
>
> >1. Randomize and Rnd in VB 6.
>
> The VB.NET version is compatible with the VB6 version IIRC, so if you
> get #2 you have this one as well.
>
>
>
> Mattias
>
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