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Re: [QUIZ] Sampling (#39

Tom Copeland

7/15/2005 8:41:00 PM

On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 05:10 +0900, David Brady wrote:
> Knuth, in turn, quotes John Von Neumann, on the preceding page:
> "Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits
> is, of course, in a state of sin."

Guy Lecky-Thompson wrote a nifty book called "Infinite Game Universe":

http://www.charlesriver.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?prod...

which was about generating things for a game. It has a couple of
chapters on random number generation, what works and what doesn't, and
all that. Very good stuff!

Yours,

Tom