From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2000-08-22T00:44:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4534] Re: RFC: Ruby extension for Random numbers

I'm delighted to see that this is to appear.
 
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, ts wrote:
>>>>> "R" == Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> writes:
	[...]
> R> class MersenneTwister19937 < RandomNumberGenerator
> 
>  Mersenne Twister is known as MT19937 (mt19937-1.c, mt19937-2.c, and 
> also ... cokus.c :-))
> 
>  Apparently you like very long name :-)

It is the numeric part I will never be able to remember when I want
it! :-)

	[...]
> R> class RandomGauss
> 
>  Difficult to say for this class, because it exist many distribution
>  (i.e. not only the gaussian distribution) (cauchy, rayleigh, pareto, etc)
>  and perhaps we will end with 50 classes
> 

Could there be a function to be re-defined (by singleton or subclass) that
would modifiy the distribution according to taste?  
> 
> Guy Decoux
> 
	Hugh
	hgs@dmu.ac.uk