Re: [Boost-users] [random] Bias in boost::random generators?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [random] Bias in boost::random generators?
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-30 13:18:47

AMDG

Tiago de Paula Peixoto wrote:
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> Peter Dimov wrote:
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>> Tiago de Paula Peixoto:
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>>> In any case, uniform_int<> and uniform_smallint<> are quite broken, if
>>> they can't be uniform for such a small range.
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>> They are (quite broken).
>>
>> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2008/01/132347.php
>> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/03/102027.php
>> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2004/08/70611.php
>> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2006/08/108839.php
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>> Unfortunately, Jens Maurer has stopped maintaining Boost.Random, and
>> random numbers are tricky enough so noone else with the sufficient
>> expertise has taken over.
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> Well, I'll use tr1::random from now on, but I think there should be at
> least a big red warning in the documentation website about this,
> specially if no one will address these problems in the near future...
>   

uniform_int is now fixed in the trunk.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe