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Re: Random Number Generators in C

• Posted by Kat <gertie at ZEBRA.NET> Feb 10, 2000
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----- Original Message -----
From: Cuny, David at DSS <David.Cuny at DSS.CA.GOV>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2000 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: Random Number Generators in C


> Joel Crook wrote:
>
> > a magic bullet that makes Euphoria do
> > 64 bit logical operations or an include
> > file that does so.
>
> If you stored the bits in a sequence:
>
>    { 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1 ... }
>
> wouldn't the operations become trivial?

Yes, otherwise this is known as string math, and you don't have the number
base conversion problems if you do all the math this way. String math is
terribly slow, since it cannot use any hardware, but there is no better
accuracy and no limits as to what can be done.

Kat