Stupid mistake! I was erroneously making the variate_generator a class attribute held by value. I succeeded getting what I need by using a uniform_smallint<> six(1,100) and generating my sequence with (*pRand_gen)() % 2. Thanks allot for the help. Jeffrey Holle wrote:
Brian Stadler wrote:
A few things,
First, try this when creating your uniform_01 object,
typedef boost::uniform_01<boost::mt19937> random_real; <--you typedef'ed it here. random_real actual_generator; actual_generator() <----to output numbers between 0 and 1.
Two, don't use uniform_01. The uniform_real class works much better and defaults to between 0 and 1.
Three, it looks like you are wanting random ints 0 and 1, not random real numbers between 0 and 1. For this have a look at the uniform_int or uniform_smallint class. They are probably what you are looking for.
Hope this helps.
Brian Thanks for this information. It looks like I indeed need uniform_smallint, but I'm having trouble with it. This is what I'm trying to compile:
std::tr1::mt19937 rng; boost::uniform_smallint<int> six(1,6); boost::variate_generator<std::tr1::mt19937&, boost::uniform_smallint<int> > die(rng, six); int x = die();
Note this from a boost webpage, with slight modifications.
The compiler error I'm getting is:
../test.cpp:15: error: no matching function for call to 'boost::variate_generator<std::tr1::mt19937&, boost::uniform_smallint<int> >::variate_generator()' $BOOST_ROOT/boost/random/variate_generator.hpp:97: note: candidates are: boost::variate_generator<Engine, Distribution>::variate_generator(Engine, Distribution) [with Engine = std::tr1::mt19937&, Distribution = boost::uniform_smallint<int>]
Can somebody point out what my problem is?