RE: ceerano and the seed

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes and no.  We were multiplying the result to fit into 1 through
9,999,999,999,999--i.e. using the leftmost 13 digits of the result.

-----Original Message-----
From: vhamberg@attbi.com
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Sent: 9/17/2002 11:57 AM
Subject: RE: ceerano and the seed

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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