clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 27.01.2016 um 23:18 schrieb Kenneth:

> > Kennth wrote:
> >
> > 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.

Ah yes, I see what you mean. (I've never had a need --that I know of! -- for
using such non-linear distributions. I guess I need to do some research about
such things.)

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