New Random Number Generator
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Thu Aug 1 00:18:55 UTC 2002
Mark4Flies at aol.com is claimed by the authorities to have written:
> Since then I have poured over the C and Smalltalk code in parallel and just
> can't find a single discrepency. Then again, the hardest task is to find
> fault in one's own work...
Absolutely; thus the virtues of code reviews, pair programmming, open
source etc.
> I am new to the idea of plugins. I suspect that they are a mechanism to take
> a foreign code (like these C programs), in whole or in part, and encapsulate
> it with a Smalltalk interface. Yes?
Sort of. Go to the swiki (http://http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak.1 and look up 'plugins' for more than you probably want to know.
>
> << What would be most useful? >>
>
> I really appreciate your help on this problem but I honestly do not have a
> clue how to answer this question.
Then we must hope that somebody who is really keen on random numbers is
listening and can offer us both some asistance!
tim
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Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
Foolproof operation: All parameters are hard coded.
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