Class RandomSeedGenerator

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

    public class RandomSeedGenerator
    extends PersistentObject
    Deterministic seed generator for pseudo-random number generators. The sole purpose of this class is to decorrelate seeds and uniform random number generators. (If a generator would be used to generate seeds for itself, the result could be correlations.)

    This class has entirelly deterministic behaviour: Constructing two instances with the same parameters at any two distinct points in time will produce identical seed sequences. However, it does not (at all) generate uniformly distributed numbers. Do not use it as a uniformly distributed random number generator!

    Each generated sequence of seeds has a period of 109 numbers. Internally uses RandomSeedTable.

    Version:
    1.0, 09/24/99
    See Also:
    Serialized Form
    • Constructor Summary

      Constructors 
      Constructor Description
      RandomSeedGenerator()
      Constructs and returns a new seed generator.
      RandomSeedGenerator​(int row, int column)
      Constructs and returns a new seed generator; you normally won't need to use this method.
    • Method Summary

      All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Concrete Methods 
      Modifier and Type Method Description
      static void main​(java.lang.String[] args)
      Prints the generated seeds for the given input parameters.
      int nextSeed()
      Returns the next seed.
      void print​(int size)
      Prints the next size generated seeds.
      • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

        equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
    • Field Detail

      • row

        protected int row
      • column

        protected int column
    • Constructor Detail

      • RandomSeedGenerator

        public RandomSeedGenerator()
        Constructs and returns a new seed generator.
      • RandomSeedGenerator

        public RandomSeedGenerator​(int row,
                                   int column)
        Constructs and returns a new seed generator; you normally won't need to use this method.

        The position [row,column] indicates the iteration starting point within a (virtual) seed matrix. The seed matrix is a n*m matrix with 1 + Integer.MAX_VALUE (virtual) rows and RandomSeedTable.COLUMNS columns. Successive calls to method nextSeed() will cycle over the given column, in ascending order: nextSeed() returns the seed s[row,column], s[row+1,column], ... s[Integer.MAX_VALUE,column], s[0,column], s[1,column], ...

        Parameters:
        row - should be in [0,Integer.MAX_VALUE].
        column - should be in [0,RandomSeedTable.COLUMNS - 1].
    • Method Detail

      • main

        public static void main​(java.lang.String[] args)
        Prints the generated seeds for the given input parameters.
      • nextSeed

        public int nextSeed()
        Returns the next seed.
      • print

        public void print​(int size)
        Prints the next size generated seeds.