Hi, I was looking at the docs for the uniform_01 distribution: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/random/random-distributions.html#u... I read the following note "Note: The current implementation is buggy, because it may not fill all of the mantissa with random bits." I do not understand the problem. I looked at the code, which does what I expect. Why is it a problem if some of the mantissa bits are not 'random'? As I understand the requirement is the real numbers are uniformly distributed; the bit patterns should not matter provided they represent numbers with the right mathematical properties. Thanks Robert Patterson http://como.cheng.cam.ac.uk/index.php?Page=People&Section=riap2
Hi Rob!
I do not understand the problem. I looked at the code, which does what I expect. Why is it a problem if some of the mantissa bits are not 'random'? As I understand the requirement is the real numbers are uniformly distributed; the bit patterns should not matter provided they represent numbers with the right mathematical properties.
As far as I understand (sorry for starting with a big disclaimer but I'm mostly just a user), the thing is that uniform_01 does not change its behaviour if you couple it with a generator that produces 32bit integers (like the mersenne twister ones). If you need sufficient random bits to fill a double with, you should really be drawing two integers from the generator, but I don't think that's what happens. Yung-Chin
Indeed this vague mention leaves you with no idea of weather you can use
that or not. It would be great if this note would be made more verbose.
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Robert Patterson
Hi,
I was looking at the docs for the uniform_01 distribution:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_39_0/libs/random/random-distributions.html#u...
I read the following note "Note: The current implementation is buggy, because it may not fill all of the mantissa with random bits."
I do not understand the problem. I looked at the code, which does what I expect. Why is it a problem if some of the mantissa bits are not 'random'? As I understand the requirement is the real numbers are uniformly distributed; the bit patterns should not matter provided they represent numbers with the right mathematical properties.
Thanks
Robert Patterson
http://como.cheng.cam.ac.uk/index.php?Page=People&Section=riap2
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