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how would you use, say, the string "abc" as the seed of an rng? would you change it into 0x616263, or 123, or hash it with sha1 (or some other hash), or something else?
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I have a (fast) bit of C++ code that samples cards from a 52 card deck:
void sample_allcards(int table[5], int holes[], int players) {
int temp[5 + 2 * players];
bool try_again;
int c, n, i;
for (i = 0; i < 5 + 2 * players; i++) {
try_again = true;
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I made a tongue-in-cheek comment to this question about making a hardware RNG.
Does anyone know of any simple plans or can anyone descibe a simple hardware based RNG and the software to drive it?
Go to Radio Shack. Buy a diode, an NTR resistor, a capacitor and serial cable. Cut off the end…
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I have a program that uses the mt19937 random number generator from boost::random. I need to do a random_shuffle and want the random numbers generated for this to be from this shared state so that they can be deterministic with respect to the mersenne twister's previously generated numbers.
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I have a loop which should be nicely pararellized by insering one openmp pragma:
boost::normal_distribution<double> ddist(0, pow(retention, i - 1));
boost::variate_generator<gen &, BOOST_TYPEOF(ddist)> dgen(rng, ddist);
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Firstly i changed color borders of my sheet to white, because i want to have a white sheet. Then i made some headers and want to make border around it. The Problem is it made borders between the values in header but top, down are not seenable.
My code:
xlWorkSheet5.Columns.Borders.Color…
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