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On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, John A. Tamplin wrote:
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> It depends on what you want the RNG for. If all you want is to make your
> robot behavior less predictable, that should be fine. If you are wanting
> to do some kind of simulation (for example, your robot could do a Monte
> Carlo simulation of possible behaviors and expected results to choose based
> on the simulation), then you probably want a better RNG with good spectral
> properties.
The author claims it has very good spectral properties, but I have no way
of testing that. The only other reference I have found to it on the net
is from a group at the University of Salzburg, who state that it
performed well in their tests. I'll take their word for it, and assume
that it is sufficient for most applications, including those needing high
levels of randomness. At a high level, it is similar to the Mersenne
Twister, which several sources indicate is the most random of random
number generators.
-Luis
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| (...) You could either take just the source file out of gnulibc and link it in, or you could change your setup to actually use the gnulibc (which is what I am doing, although not with legOS). (...) It depends on what you want the RNG for. If all you (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jul-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.legos)
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