From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-08-13T09:33:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Random variable library?

On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 07:17:01 +0900, Joel VanderWerf wrote

> I'd like to see something like that, but with multiple independent 
> streams of random numbers, so it can be used for simulations with 
> many random variables.

I have a Ruby implementation of the ISAAC cryptographically secure random 
number generator packaged with Iowa.  Each Crypt::Iowa object is an 
independent source of random numbers.

@random_numbers = Crypt::ISAAC.new

number = @random_numbers.rand(1000)

It does need a little work, but it wouldn't take much to polish it up.


Kirk Haines