"Geoff Wedig" wrote:
> 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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