POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : random numbers : Re: random numbers Server Time
8 Aug 2024 12:23:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: random numbers  
From: Ron Parker
Date: 8 Feb 2001 10:34:21
Message: <slrn985f3u.614.ron.parker@fwi.com>
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 00:36:36 +0100, Alessandro Coppo wrote:
>*) Park Miller Minimal Standard
>http://htm4.ee.queensu.ca:8000/ling/minrng.html

This one looks good, but it doesn't have any sort of writeup.  Is there
another page that goes with this that might include copyright details?

>*) Mersenne Twister, currently the best known
>http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html,  period is 2**19937-1 it's
>not a typo... about 10**6000!!!

We can't use this one at this time as its license is GPL.

-- 
Ron Parker   http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html
My opinions.  Mine.  Not anyone else's.


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