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Re: tested random # generator? [message #7003]

Mon, 16 September 1996 00:00

offenbrg
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Tim Patterson <tim@raptor.lpl.arizona.edu> writes:

> Fronefield Crawford wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have a random number generator written in IDL that's been
>> tested to work? I've tried linking in ran1.c (from Numerical Recipes)
>> via call_external, but I am having trouble doing that. For me it would
>> be easiest to use a routine already written in IDL would be best. Many
>> thanks.
>>
>> Froney Crawford
>> crawford@mit.edu

> In IDL 4.0.1 there are two routines RANDOMN and RANDOMU that
> generate random floating point numbers. I don't know if these
> were available in earlier versions.

> Tim

RANDOMU and RANDOMN have been around for quite a while. Note, however,
that these are not true random number generators, but are pseudo-random
number generators...I don't know of an actual random number generator that
works in IDL.

Joel
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		Re: tested random # generator? By: offenbrg on Mon, 16 September 1996 00:00
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