RE: statistics in Lua

[Khaled Abduljalil <k.abduljalil@...>]

Thank you very much for your feedback and the link to those libraries and tools. I will try the math one as well.
Regards


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From: lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org [mailto:lua-l-bounces@lists.lua.org] On Behalf Of Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
Sent: 30 November 2011 13:14
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Subject: Re: statistics in Lua

> Does anybody know any ready codes for statistical functions in Lua, random generation, ...?

For random number generation using the uniform distribution Lua has a built-in function math.random. See also math.randomseed.

Lua's math.random uses the random number generator provided by the C library.
Historically, this generator was not very good, but in recent C libraries, e.g. the GNU C library, this generator is much better. If you need to make sure you're using a better random number generator, try my lrandom at http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/~lhf/ftp/lua/#lrandom which uses the Mersenne Twister.