OpenEuphoria

RE: Let's try this ONE more time :-)

• Posted by Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> Jul 08, 2004
• 453 views

Hi Ricardo,

If you had read the posts following that in the same thread
you would have found that what i meant was, for a and b random
with range 0 to n:
a*n+b
not simply
a+b

Some other postee's had called this 'concatenation' of
two random numbers.

Ricardo M. Forno wrote:
> 
> Hi, Al.
> 
> You said:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 1. For two added rnd numbers the distribution should be the same.
> >    It's multiplication that changes the distribution.
> 
> In fact, adding two or more random numbers *changes* the distribution.
> Old FORTRAN routines used the sum of 12 random numbers (why exactly 12?
> Because this was considered enough to get a good distribution) to get a
> Gaussian normal distribution.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 


Take care,
Al

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