limitations to random number generator in 64-bits machines
On 22/02/13 12:54, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On 22/02/2013 11:02, Bert Gunter wrote:
AFAICS, these are statistics, not R, issues, and are completely off topic here. You should post on a statistics list, such as stats.stackexchange.com, instead.
Except for the unattributed vague comment about 64-bit (sic) machines. The RNG is the same (and gives the same results) on both 32- and 64-bit machines. The size of the pointer has nothing to do with random-number generation.
Thank you very much for making this clear for me. Kind regards, Mauricio
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