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Roger Avery
My final year (Statistics degree) project is concerned
with the PRNG in MS Excel.
It was stated by the lecturer in Simulation Studies that
this PRNG was no good for simulation purposes .. the
cycle length is not long enough.
So that I can test this statement I need to be able to
run the in-built PRNG so that it repeats the sequence of
generated random numbers. This cannot be done in situ as
there are not enough cells available (max 16k ?).
I would propose to run the PRNG as a VBA macro - or
stand_alone in VB6 - but for that I need to obtain the
mathematical expression that is used by Excel.
Can you tell me what it is, or where it may be published,
or who to ask?
with the PRNG in MS Excel.
It was stated by the lecturer in Simulation Studies that
this PRNG was no good for simulation purposes .. the
cycle length is not long enough.
So that I can test this statement I need to be able to
run the in-built PRNG so that it repeats the sequence of
generated random numbers. This cannot be done in situ as
there are not enough cells available (max 16k ?).
I would propose to run the PRNG as a VBA macro - or
stand_alone in VB6 - but for that I need to obtain the
mathematical expression that is used by Excel.
Can you tell me what it is, or where it may be published,
or who to ask?