Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 16 May 1996 09:10:57 +0100 (GMT+0100) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_RANDOM option for 1.99.2 |
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On Wed, 15 May 1996, Robert L Krawitz wrote:
> Someone who's running Monte Carlo simulations hopefully has a fair bit > of memory available, and knows enough about random number generators > to realize the importance of a good one. For that matter, the problem > with random numbers for Monte Carlo methods is rarely the quality of > the seed, but rather the quality of the generator (the f(x+1) term). > If the generator has poor spectral properties, it doesn't matter how > good the initial seed was.
just run a small "collecting" daemon on a busy Linux server for a few days, and you will have megabytes of best quality random data. And once you have a few tens megabytes of good quality random data, you dont really want to get more (if you are running Monte Carlo simulations only).
-- mingo
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