Re:PCG, A Family of Better Random Number Generators
by eterm on Wednesday July 15, 2015 @04:23AM
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One of the benefits of a PRNG is reproducibility. If you are doing a monte carlo simulation, then you can get good results while still starting runs from predictable seeds. (e.g. [0,1,2,3,4,...])
This gives you both good quality random numbers during the simulation run yet lets others reproduce your results and expand with more results if required.
This gives you both good quality random numbers during the simulation run yet lets others reproduce your results and expand with more results if required.