Computational Physics Lab (E&M) Random Numbers

3. Random Numbers

(The references below are to the online version of Numerical Recipes in C. See the instructions on the Numerical Recipes web site for accessing the PDF files. Source code for all programs cited is available on newton in /usr/local/Numerical_Recipes/C/Code.)

(Pseudo) Random numbers
- Random number generators
- Uniform distributions
- A random number generator
  - srandinter(seed) initializes the sequence
  - randinter(a,b) returns a random real number uniformly distributed on [a,b]
- A simple application: 2-D uniform distribution
- Exercise 3.1: statistics of numerically generated random numbers
Generating probability distributions
Homework #2