Random algorithm

[Noel]

I came into this discussion late, so apologies if this has been mentioned.

Have you considered utilizing http://www.random.org  ?

They might have something available that would work for a solution.

  - Noel

At 04:58 PM 11/12/2008, you wrote:

>Le 12 nov. 2008 à 23:41, Richard Gaskin a écrit  (excerpts):
>
>>for pure science, probably not.  But for getting work done in Rev,
>>maybe.
>
>One not-so-marginal problem is the criticism of pernickery* referees
>when you (try to) publish your results. They DO want pure science, and
>usually ask how you did obtain your random numbers !
>
>>What is the application in question?
>
>
>The application I'm developping presently is a general-purpose analyse
>program of ecological data mostly designed for students training (but
>it should be useful for "serious" work too). I don't want a good RNG
>for THIS application only, it's to be used as a library for several
>applications, mostly simulations in population biology and population
>genetics, but also research of solutions of systems of equations by
>processes like simulated annealing. And I suppose you will be glad to
>hear that I find Revolution excellent to built such simulations, and
>decently fast even without using externals. One quality of Revolution
>is the ease to produce (among other things) a visual and animated view
>of the progress of the simulation (progressive spreading and
>diversification of genes across a geographic area with variable
>climatic conditions, for instance). As a teacher, I like that, among
>plenty of other qualities of Rev. As a researcher, I like also the
>possibility to easy built quick-and-dirty, but efficient, programs to
>solve problems when you meet them. And as an emeritus (hum,hum)
>professor, I want to use some of the time suddently available to
>replace my quick-and-dirty programs by well presented and well
>structured applications. Made with Revolution, of course !
>
>Jacques
>
>* I went to the dictionary for this one ;o)
>
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