RE: ceerano and the seed -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: RE: ceerano and the seed
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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 18:57:32 +0000
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Fritz

Are you using the actual floating point values
generated, or are you extrapolating over a range? If so,
what is the range?

Vern
>  I agree that it doesn't work well for what we were trying to do.  What made
> me most curious was the pattern of the results.  A small subset of the
> numbers each occurred 70 and 69 times each with the remainder each occurring
> once over 99,999 iterations. I would have expected something more like a
> normal distribution.

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