On 11/11/2013 11:19 AM, Robert Kern wrote:
On 2013-11-11 00:49, alex23 wrote:
The random module uses os.urandom,
No, it doesn't. random.random() is an alias to the random() method on
the random.Random class, which uses the Mersenne Twister to generate
values. os.urandom() gets called in the in
On 11/11/2013 01:15, Ned Batchelder wrote:
On Friday, November 8, 2013 12:48:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Bit wrote:
Here's the code:
from random import random
from time import clock
s = clock()
for i in (1, 2, 3, 6, 8):
M = 0
N = 10**i
for n in xrange(N):
r = random()
On Friday, November 8, 2013 12:48:04 PM UTC-5, Pascal Bit wrote:
> Here's the code:
>
> from random import random
> from time import clock
>
> s = clock()
>
> for i in (1, 2, 3, 6, 8):
> M = 0
> N = 10**i
>
> for n in xrange(N):
> r = random()
> if 0.5 < r < 0.6
On 2013-11-11 00:49, alex23 wrote:
On 9/11/2013 3:48 AM, Pascal Bit wrote:
from random import random
> [...]
Running on win7 python 2.7 32 bit it uses around 30 seconds avg.
Running on xubuntu, 32 bit, on vmware on windows 7: 20 seconds!
The code runs faster on vm, than the computer itself..
On 9/11/2013 3:48 AM, Pascal Bit wrote:
from random import random
> [...]
Running on win7 python 2.7 32 bit it uses around 30 seconds avg.
Running on xubuntu, 32 bit, on vmware on windows 7: 20 seconds!
The code runs faster on vm, than the computer itself...
The python version in this case is
Here's the code:
from random import random
from time import clock
s = clock()
for i in (1, 2, 3, 6, 8):
M = 0
N = 10**i
for n in xrange(N):
r = random()
if 0.5 < r < 0.6:
M += 1
k = (N, float(M)/N)
print (clock()-s)
Running on win7 python 2.7 32 b
