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From: "Jari Häkkinen" <jari@chiralcomp.com>
To: gsl-discuss@sources.redhat.com
Subject: rng question
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4396B8AF.7040300@chiralcomp.com> (raw)

Hi all,

I have question about the random number generator features and 
documentation.

According to the documentation gsl_rng_max(rng_ returns the maximum 
random number the underlying rng can give, and 
gsl_rng_uniform_int(rng,gsl_rng_max(rng)) will return 
[0,gsl_rng_max(rng)-1]. This will not give the maximum number from the 
underlying generator, so I tried 
gsl_rng_uniform_int(rng,gsl_rng_max(rng)+1) but this call does not 
return (since the second argument becomes 0).

Shouldn't this case be covered by GSL? Either by returning a error code 
or maybe setting the upper bound to gsl_rng_max(rng) when a 0 second 
argumnet is given? At least, I think this case should be covered in the 
documentation.


Cheers,

Jari

             reply	other threads:[~2005-12-07 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-07 10:25 Jari Häkkinen [this message]
2005-12-07 20:07 ` Brian Gough
2005-12-09 13:49   ` Jari Häkkinen
2005-12-17 16:50     ` Brian Gough
2005-12-17 23:58       ` Jari Häkkinen
2008-08-03 23:32 RNG question Robert G. Brown
2008-08-05  9:05 ` Fabian Bastin
2008-08-08 11:12 ` Brian Gough
2008-08-08 12:33   ` Robert G. Brown
2008-08-11 20:47     ` Brian Gough
2008-08-18 21:12     ` Robert G. Brown

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