On 13/12/10 05:09, Jonathan Mullins wrote:
Is there a way to generate a random number in Aseba Script? Or would
this have to be implemented as a native function?

I have been looking quickly into random generators. It seems that for aseba a Mersene Twister is probably too slow, so we might go for a WELL [1,2] if we need a very good random, or for the linear congruential generator of the libc [3]. What quality/speed tradeoff do you aim at?

Kind regards,

Stéphane

[1] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~panneton/WELLRNG.html
[2] http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/lfsr04.pdf
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_congruential_generator

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Dr Stéphane Magnenat
http://stephane.magnenat.net

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