POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Real Random Numbers : Re: Real Random Numbers Server Time
16 May 2024 18:41:26 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Real Random Numbers  
From: clipka
Date: 27 Jan 2016 19:14:31
Message: <56a95d67@news.povray.org>
Am 27.01.2016 um 23:18 schrieb Kenneth:
> "Anthony D. Baye" <Sha### [at] spamnomorehotmailcom> wrote:
> 
>>
>> There's also rand.inc which has several different random number generators.
>>
> 
> As far as I can tell, those generators are all pseudo-random too -- well,
> pseudo-pseudo-pseudo....random ;-)  By using lots of tricks to get the final
> values, but still based on seed(...) and rand(...)

Actually those aren't (pseudo-)random number generators in the usual
sense, nor are they intended to be, but rather macros that use a
pseudo-random number generator to generate pseudo-random numbers with
particular non-linear distributions.


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