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Re: Merge Marsaglia-Tsang routines with GSL?
- From: Brian Gough <bjg at network-theory dot co dot uk>
- To: John D Lamb <J dot D dot Lamb at btinternet dot com>
- Cc: gsl-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 20:41:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: Merge Marsaglia-Tsang routines with GSL?
- References: <43BEC3CC.7090102@btinternet.com>
John D Lamb writes:
> I would suggest some names like gsl_ran_gaussian_mt and gsl_ran_gamma_mt
> to distinguish the code from the existing functions. They could even
> replace the existing functions, though there are two differences: the
> sequence of generated variates is different and so could conceivably
> change the results of old code; the Marsaglia-Tsang generators assume a
> 32-bit random number generator.
I'll put them into the next release.
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Brian Gough