Rune <run### [at] inamecom> wrote:

> "Lutz-Peter Hooge" wrote:
>> I think an array initialized with random numbers could be
>> used for this. Of course it will need to be very large, or
>> the numbers will repeat much more often than in a normal
>> random numer stream.

> At first I thought the array needed would be too large, but wouldn't it work
> to make a relative small array, and then use averages of different numbers
> from the array?

> If 3 numbers from the array were averaged the amount of different numbers
> would be array_length^3 and if 8 numbers were averaged it would be ^8 !

> Maybe this is the solution?

Those wouldn't be equally distributed though.  The mean of three uniformly
distributed numbers is not uniformly distributed.

Geoff

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