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["Bo Schwarzstein" <>]

GSL(GNU Scientific Library) provides a lot of classical random generators 
and quasi monte carlo sequences generators. The boost library also owns 
random generators, it's easy to use.

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From: "Sylvain Pion" 
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Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 9:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [cgal-discuss] Random class

> Julien Demouth a �crit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Maybe it is a question which has already been raised (I've seen no sign 
> > of this in the archive of the list) but why does the CGAL::Random 
> > documentation page differ from its implementation ?
> >
> > Is there any plan of designing a "better" Random class ?
>
> I would say the plan will be to try to switch to the random generators
> provided by C++0x (the next C++ standard).  I know our random generators
> have some issues.
>
> --
> Sylvain Pion
> INRIA Sophia-Antipolis
> Geometrica Project-Team
> CGAL, http://cgal.org/