Re: Random Geometric (long)
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- Subject: [mg23427] Re: [mg23340] Random Geometric (long)
- From: bernd at bio.vu.nl (Bernd Brandt)
- Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 02:32:13 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Dan, Thank you for your answer. Basically Random does not do its job correctly and its use should be avoided for generating reals. As i understand this is always the case, but was demonstrated well by the discrete geometric distribution. Thanks also for the alternative. Regarding the implementation of Random-CA i have one question: Why do you use ((Random[Integer,2^30-1]/2^30.)+ Random[Integer,2^30-1])/2^30. and not (Random[Integer, 2^30 - 1]/2^30.) Regards, Bernd