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Re: Re: Re: RandomComplex documentation

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg80256] Re: [mg80185] Re: [mg80124] Re: RandomComplex documentation
• From: Darren Glosemeyer <darreng at wolfram.com>
• Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:32:21 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200708130832.EAA27489@smc.vnet.net> <200708141109.HAA09737@smc.vnet.net>

Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13 Aug 2007, at 10:32, Bill Rowe wrote:
>
>   
>> On 8/12/07 at 7:24 AM, akoz at mimuw.edu.pl (Andrzej Kozlowski) wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Here is a extract from the documentation for RandomComplex:
>>>       
>>> "RandomComplex[range,n] gives a list of n pseudorandom complex
>>> numbers."
>>>       
>>> and now here is an extract from tutorial/RandomNumberGeneration:
>>>       
>>> "RandomComplex[domain,n] gives a list of n pseudorandom reals"
>>>       
>>> ???
>>>       
>> Given:
>>
>> In[1]:= RandomComplex[{0, 1}, 5]
>>
>> Out[1]= {0.031873580468932516 + 0. \[ImaginaryI],
>>   0.5275216955764901 + 0. \[ImaginaryI],
>>   0.665414621684336 + 0. \[ImaginaryI],
>>   0.11248161136844037 + 0. \[ImaginaryI],
>>   0.3548022392621708 + 0. \[ImaginaryI]}
>>
>> In[2]:= $Version
>>
>> Out[2]= 6.0 for Mac OS X PowerPC (32-bit) (June 19, 2007)
>>
>> I conclude there is simply an error in the tutorial
>>     
>
> Hmm ... you seem to have reached as your "conclusion" what for me was  
> an "implicit assumption"  (too obvious to bother to state).
> Let me then restate myself. My real question was:  is anyone going to  
> do anything about it?
> And another thing: the question was (is) addressed only to people who  
> are in a position to do something about it.
>   

Yes, that statement (as well as the statement for RandomComplex[domain, 
{n1,n2,...}]) in the tutorial will be fixed.

Darren Glosemeyer
Wolfram Research

• References:
  • Re: RandomComplex documentation
    • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv@sbcglobal.net>
  • Re: Re: RandomComplex documentation
    • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>