cfitsio/simplerng.h

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C

/*
Simple Random Number Generators
- getuniform - uniform deviate [0,1]
- getnorm - gaussian (normal) deviate (mean=0, stddev=1)
- getpoisson - poisson deviate for given expected mean lambda
This code is adapted from SimpleRNG by John D Cook, which is
provided in the public domain.
The original C++ code is found here:
http://www.johndcook.com/cpp_random_number_generation.html
This code has been modified in the following ways compared to the
original.
1. convert to C from C++
2. keep only uniform, gaussian and poisson deviates
3. state variables are module static instead of class variables
4. provide an srand() equivalent to initialize the state
*/
extern void simplerng_setstate(unsigned int u, unsigned int v);
extern void simplerng_getstate(unsigned int *u, unsigned int *v);
extern void simplerng_srand(unsigned int seed);
extern double simplerng_getuniform(void);
extern double simplerng_getnorm(void);
extern int simplerng_getpoisson(double lambda);
extern double simplerng_logfactorial(int n);