Re: 32-bit random numbers
- Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 06, 2004
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Hi Igor, you wrote: > Hi again Jurgen, > > Me wrote: <snip> >> Get one trick more: >> >> To get the 32 bit rnd flat distribution >> you can do the following steps: >> >> a. Get rnd number in [0,1] range from the EU standard rand() >> b. Get rnd number in needed range from [0,1] range. >> >> It may be done as: >> >> }}} <eucode> >> atom k >> k = 1 / 1073741823 -- the biggest EU integer >> atom rnd_0_1 >> >> function rand_0_N(atom N) >> rnd_0_1 = k * (rand(1073741823)-1) >> return floor(N * rnd_0_1) >> end function >> >> for i=1 to 1000 do >> ? 1 + rand_0_N(#FFFFFFFF) -- this distribution >> -- is in [1,#FFFFFFFF] range >> end for >> </eucode> {{{ Cool! Why didn't I think of that? > Yes, it seems to be: > > for i=1 to 1000 do > ? 1 + rand_0_N(#FFFFFFFF - 1) > -- this distribution > -- is in [1,#FFFFFFFF] range > end for ---- It seems to me, that your *first* version was correct, wasn't it? For testing, I used N=6:
atom k k = 1 / 1073741823 -- the biggest EU integer atom rnd_0_1 function rand_0_N(atom N) rnd_0_1 = k * (rand(1073741823)-1) return floor(N * rnd_0_1) end function atom N, x, min, max N = 6 min = 1 + rand_0_N(N) max = min for i=1 to 1000 do x = 1 + rand_0_N(N) -- this distribution is in [1,6] range if x < min then min = x elsif x > max then max = x end if end for printf(1, "range [%d,%d]", {min, max})
Thanks, Igor! Regards, Juergen