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Re: RNG question


At Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:28:52 -0400 (EDT),
Robert G. Brown wrote:
> There are obviously several ways I can fix it so this never happens
> again, but I thought before I implemented any of them I'd ask at least
> if it is now expected that the rngs in the gsl are "frozen", or if there
> is an ongoing possibility that more will be added? 

Yes, I expect there will be some new ones (or corrections to existing
ones).

> The other question I have is that at one point in time the maximum
> number of rngs one could have was restricted by a macro in the sources
> to be 100 (if I recall correctly -- I have a remark to that effect in my
> own code's comments).

The macro is really an internal implementation detail and not intended
to be a limit (as far as I'm aware it's not publically accessible).
There are currently about 60 generators so if you wanted to give them
numbers 100 is too small but 1000 or 500 shouldn't be a problem.


-- 
Brian Gough


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