I looked into this a few years ago & I believe that all the high quality & fast random number generators require specialized bit minipulation functions that are not available in Kixtart. I suspect that you could create these functions in Kixtart UDFs but the result would no longer be fast.

The Mersenne Twister is probably the leading candidate for a fast/high-quality generator but Kixtart is missing too many native functions too really get any speed.

But if want to do this seriously why would you use Kixtart - can't you live with the native random number generator provided by the MS system? For most every day applications this function is perfectly adequate. Yes the function fails some tests concerning randomness but they are pretty esoteric & probably irrelevant for most aplications.

AH; I see Bryce & Shawn are using the MS function

Edited by Jack Lothian (2005-03-28 05:54 PM)