OpenEuphoria

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

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jul 08, 2004
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Al Getz wrote:
> 
> Robert Craig wrote:
> > 
> > Al Getz wrote:
> > > By the way, anyone know the period of the current Euphoria random
> > > number generator?
> > 
> > I believe it's something like power(2, 61).
> > 
> > If you had been computing one rand() per second
> > since the "Big Bang", you might be getting close
> > to repeating by now.
> 
> Wow, that sounds a little too good 
> Any way you know of to test that...

No. 

Even at a billion/sec it should take years to repeat.
I got that statistic from some notes I wrote several years
ago when I implemented the algorithm. The algorithm
was on a university web site somewhere.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com