Re: Generating normally distributed randoms in CL

På Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:28:22 +0200, skrev Madhu <enometh@xxxxxxxx>:

* Leonardo Varuzza
Wrote on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:18:57 -0700 (PDT):

| In SBCL the random function uses the well known algorithm of Mersenne
| Twister.

So does CMUCL, but neither fact is relevant to the point I was making
here. I was talking of using a well known _implementation_, (not just
algorithm) in your simulation program, which would not depend on the
implementation's RANDOM


That's just silly. Any random distribution function depends on the randomness.
LW has a Merseyenne twister as well..

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John Thingstad
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