Re: Mersenne Twister range in rand.oct and randn.oct

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Mike Miller wrote:

> In one Mersenne Twister FAQ I see this:
>
>   2002-version mt19937ar.c has versions [0,1],[0,1),[0,1),(0,1) (32-bit
>   precision), and [0,1) with 53-bit precision.
>
> Which am I getting when I use rand.oct in Octave forge?  What I would 
> really like to know are the largest and smallest values that can be 
> produced both by rand.oct and by randn.oct.


I should say that it's really one .oct file:  rand.oct.
randn is derived from rand.oct.

I took a look at Octave Forge's rand.cc but I can't find in it what I need 
to know (because of my incompetence, obviously).

Mike



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