edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack
Class RandomJava

java.lang.Object
  cern.colt.PersistentObject
      edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack.RandomElement
          edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack.RandomJava

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

public class RandomJava
extends RandomElement

RandomJava is a class wrapper for the Math.random() generator that comes with Java. I know nothing about the quality of Math.random(), but I will warn the reader that system-supplied RNGs have a bad reputation; RandomJava is NOT reccomended for general use, it has only been included as a straightforward example of how to build a RandomElement wrapper for an existing RNG. The RANMAR, RANECU and RANLUX generators included in this package all appear to be faster than Math.random(); all three are well-studied, portable and proven in use.

Source code is available.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Paul Houle (E-mail: houle@msc.cornell.edu)

See Also:

Ranmar, Ranlux, Ranecu, Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

RandomJava()

Method Summary

double

raw() Wrapper for Math.random().

Methods inherited from class edu.cornell.lassp.houle.RngPack.RandomElement

choose, choose, gaussian, gaussian, powlaw, raw, raw, uniform

Methods inherited from class cern.colt.PersistentObject

clone

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RandomJava

public RandomJava()

Method Detail

raw

public double raw()

Wrapper for Math.random().

Specified by:

raw in class RandomElement

Returns:

a random double in the range (0,1).

See Also:

RandomElement.raw()