From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2000-06-22T06:30:49+02:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:03609] Re: Is there a statistician in the house?

>>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:

D> I'm looking for a couple of unit tests for Ruby's random number
D> generator. 

 ruby use the generator of the system (rand48() or rand()), these
 generators are well known. 

 Like it's well known that it exist better generator :-)

 Mersenne-Twister     http://www.math.keio.ac.jp/~matumoto/emt.html
 ISAAC                http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaacafa.html
 etc,

 look also at

   http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/testsfor.html


Guy Decoux