1. non-linear random numbers
- Posted by Kasey <kaeyb at GEOCITIES.COM>
Apr 28, 1998
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Last edited Apr 29, 1998
FWIW if anyone's interested I have written some routines
to generate random numbers that have non-linear probabilities,
that is some numbers are more likely than others.
I used a bell curve as the basis for some of the routines
and exponents for others.
The first version is already on RDS's contrib page. and the second and
third (a major re-write after I found a bug in ver2)
have been sent to RDS's and Irv's sites but not posted.
The third ver is designed for user expansion and only has
one global function to deal with. It also has a graphical
demo/test prog that uses mode 259(800x600x256) (only 3 vaiables and
the call to graphics_mode need be changed for other graphics modes)
I'm curious as to what people think (if anyone is interested)
I'd be willing to e-mail ver3 to anyone who doesn't want to wait for it
to show up on the above mention sites.(not that I think anyone would
be THAT interested, but my ego's complaining I aint fed it recently :))
Kasey
