Re: [Rd] [R] RNG Cycle and Duplication (PR#12540)

2008-08-14 Thread shli
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[Rd] RNG Cycle and Duplication (PR#12536)

2008-08-14 Thread shli
Hello all, I am generating large samples of random numbers. The RNG help page says: "All the supplied uniform generators return 32-bit integer values that are converted to doubles, so they take at most 2^32 distinct values and long runs will return duplicated values." But I find that the cycles