George Marsaglia wrote in message <0l7b8.42092$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... >
.. chunk deleted > >The Monty Python method is not quite as fast as as the Ziggurat. > >Some may think that Alan Miller's somewhat vague reference to >a source for the ziggurat article suggests disdain. The source is >Journal of Statistical Software Vol 5, Issue 8, >available on the Web. > No disdain intended, George; I just didn't have the reference handy, and couldn't remember the name of the journal. I did give the correct reference later. I notice that you have another article in the latest issue of the journal - on tests of random numbers. Keep up the good work. >George Marsaglia > Cheers -- Alan Miller (Honorary Research Fellow, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences) http://www.ozemail.com.au/~milleraj http://users.bigpond.net.au/amiller/ ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
