[Haskell-cafe] good choice for random number generator ?

[Oleg Grenrus]

I added vector-random to matrix.h.h.o build queue [1]:

Will check whether it have some problems, and report here & upstream

Oleg

- [1] http://matrix.hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-random <http://matrix.hackage.haskell.org/package/vector-random>


> On 25 Jul 2016, at 02:48, <briand at aracnet.com> <briand at aracnet.com> wrote:
> 
> There's quite a few.  Many are very old.
> 
> I would have like to use vector-random and got this :
> 
> Data/Vector/Random/Mersenne.hs:33:18:
>    Could not find module ‘Data.Vector.Fusion.Stream’
>    It is a member of the hidden package ‘vector-0.10.12.3 at vecto_1COyUuV1LrA1IjYnWfJnbs’.
>    Perhaps you need to add ‘vector’ to the build-depends in your .cabal file.
>    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> 
> Data/Vector/Random/Mersenne.hs:35:18:
>    Could not find module ‘Data.Vector.Fusion.Stream.Size’
>    It is a member of the hidden package ‘vector-0.10.12.3 at vecto_1COyUuV1LrA1IjYnWfJnbs’.
>    Perhaps you need to add ‘vector’ to the build-depends in your .cabal file.
>    Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> 
> I wouldn't be opposed to fixing it, but I'm wondering at this point there isn't a better package to use instead.
> 
> I'm looking for both integer and floating point random numbers, uniform and gaussian.
> 
> gsl-random looks promising as does mwc-random.
> 
> any other suggestions ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian
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