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Re: [Bug-gsl] Minor inaccuracy in comment
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Patrick Alken |
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Re: [Bug-gsl] Minor inaccuracy in comment |
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Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:04:26 +0000 |
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Thank you, I have corrected this on the git
On 2/19/19 1:46 AM, Chris Hiszpanski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Noticed a comment in rng/taus113.c is inaccurate -- z_1 is computed from z_0,
> not the other way around. Patch is provided below.
>
> Chris
>
> diff --git a/rng/taus113.c b/rng/taus113.c
> index 04da6a89..a46248bc 100644
> --- a/rng/taus113.c
> +++ b/rng/taus113.c
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
> work on architectures where integers are 64-bit.
>
> The generator is initialized with
> - zi = (69069 * z{i+1}) MOD 2^32 where z0 is the seed provided
> + z{i+1} = (69069 * z{i}) MOD 2^32 where z0 is the seed provided
> During initialization a check is done to make sure that the initial seeds
> have a required number of their most significant bits set.
> After this, the state is passed through the RNG 10 times to ensure the