Ranmar Class |
Universal random number generator proposed by Marsaglia, Zaman, and Tsang.
It has a period of 2^144 = 2*10^43, and is completely portable.
Only 24 bits are guaranteed to be completely random.
Inheritance HierarchyNamespace: Altaxo.Calc.Probability.Old
Assembly: AltaxoCore (in AltaxoCore.dll) Version: 4.8.3572.0 (4.8.3572.0)
SyntaxC#
public class Ranmar
The Ranmar type exposes the following members.
Constructors| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Ranmar | Initializes a new instance of the Ranmar class. |
| Ranmar(UInt32) | Initializes a new instance of the Ranmar class. |
Methods| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Equals | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. (Inherited from Object) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as the default hash function. (Inherited from Object) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object) |
| Seed | Initializes the generator with an automatically chosen seed. |
| Seed(UInt32) | Initializes the generator with the specified seed. |
| ToString | Returns a string that represents the current object. (Inherited from Object) |
| val | Returns the next random value. |
Remarks
Up to now this generator has passed all statistical tests on randomness.
Ranmar generates a sequence of random numbers uniformly distributed in the
interval (0,1), the end points excluded.
The seed value must be in the range 0 <= ijkl <= 900 000 000.
References:
1. G. Marsaglia and A. Zaman, Toward a Universal Random Number Generator,
Florida State University FSU-SCRI-87-50 (1987).
2. F. James, A Review of Pseudorandom Number Generators, Computer Phys.
Comm. 60, 329-344 (1990).
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