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[Bug-gsl] Minor inaccuracy in comment


From: Chris Hiszpanski
Subject: [Bug-gsl] Minor inaccuracy in comment
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 08:46:09 +0000

Hello,

Noticed a comment in rng/taus113.c is inaccurate -- z_1 is computed from z_0, 
not the other way around. Patch is provided below.

Chris

diff --git a/rng/taus113.c b/rng/taus113.c
index 04da6a89..a46248bc 100644
--- a/rng/taus113.c
+++ b/rng/taus113.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
    work on architectures where integers are 64-bit.

    The generator is initialized with
-   zi = (69069 * z{i+1}) MOD 2^32 where z0 is the seed provided
+   z{i+1} = (69069 * z{i}) MOD 2^32 where z0 is the seed provided
    During initialization a check is done to make sure that the initial seeds
    have a required number of their most significant bits set.
    After this, the state is passed through the RNG 10 times to ensure the

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