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Enhancing Excel's Random Number Generator!
Hi everyone:
I found this information on how to enhance Excel's RNG: http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B86523 How can I take advantage of this to enhance my excel RNG? Thanks, Mike |
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Enhancing Excel's Random Number Generator!
Mike -
Maybe the simplest way to "enhance" Excel's random number generator is to use Excel 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;828795 - Mike www.mikemiddleton.com "Mike" wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone: I found this information on how to enhance Excel's RNG: http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B86523 How can I take advantage of this to enhance my excel RNG? Thanks, Mike |
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Enhancing Excel's Random Number Generator!
I talks about an Excel INI file. I don't find one for Excel 2002.
However, they also say at the bottom that the default was changed from 0 to 1 in Excel 5. They probably didn't change it back. To check that, I started Excel and typed the formula =RAND() in a cell and noted the result. Then I closed Excel, reopened it, and repeated this. The 2nd number was NOT the same. So it has probably already been "enhanced". On 8 Mar 2005 13:55:48 -0800, "Mike" wrote: Hi everyone: I found this information on how to enhance Excel's RNG: http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B86523 How can I take advantage of this to enhance my excel RNG? Thanks, Mike |
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Enhancing Excel's Random Number Generator!
PS: I don't find any registry setting that looks relevant.
On 8 Mar 2005 13:55:48 -0800, "Mike" wrote: Hi everyone: I found this information on how to enhance Excel's RNG: http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B86523 How can I take advantage of this to enhance my excel RNG? Thanks, Mike |
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Enhancing Excel's Random Number Generator!
And if that is not good enough, you might look at the Mersenne Twister
http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.j...at/MT/emt.html http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.ac.j...S/FORTRAN/fort... http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/...neTwister.html which is implemented in the freeware NtRand http://www.numtech.com/NtRand/ Also note that the improved algorithm in 2003 only applies to the worksheet function RAND(), not to the VBA or ATP random number generators. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...9.36e9afd8%40p... implements the 2003 algorithm in VBA. Jerry Michael R Middleton wrote: Mike - Maybe the simplest way to "enhance" Excel's random number generator is to use Excel 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;828795 - Mike www.mikemiddleton.com "Mike" wrote in message oups.com... Hi everyone: I found this information on how to enhance Excel's RNG: http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B86523 How can I take advantage of this to enhance my excel RNG? Thanks, Mike |
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