Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 20:08:38 05/30/04
Go up one level in this thread
On May 30, 2004 at 20:05:55, Uri Blass wrote: >people claim that using rand generates bad random numbers. > >If you have better 32 bit number then I am interested how much better are they >in test suite. > >Here are my numbers >Can you replace your 32 bit number by these numbers and report if your program >is slower in test suite and in case that it is slower how much slower? > you might find these links interesting: http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/tests/ http://www.cryptosys.net/random.html http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~wagnerr/MersenneTwister.html you would generally not use rand() for cryptography... a MersenneTwister RNG has an unusually long period, 2^19937-1, and the order of equidistribution, 623 dimensions, is far greater than Rand() (or so I have read) YMMV depending on what your needs are...
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.