Created on 2006-01-10.00:00:00 last changed 171 months ago
Rationale:
Recommend NAD as the affected section is now gone and so the issue is moot. N2111.
Paragraph 10 describes how a variate generator uses numbers produced by an engine to pass to a generator. The sentence that concerns me is: "Otherwise, if the value for engine_value_type::result_type is true and the value for Distribution::input_type is false [i.e. if the engine produces integers and the engine wants floating-point values], then the numbers in s_eng are divided by engine().max() - engine().min() + 1 to obtain the numbers in s_e." Since the engine is producing integers, both the numerator and the denominator are integers and we'll be doing integer division, which I don't think is what we want. Shouldn't we be performing a conversion to a floating-point type first?
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2010-10-21 18:28:33 | admin | set | messages: + msg3016 |
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