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@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ be the same in both languages, provided the same seed is used. How --- -In Python, the interface SyncRNG.py can be used as an importable module. In R, -it is adviced to simply source the 'SyncRNG.R' file. Before use, make sure to +In Python, the interface `SyncRNG.py` can be used as an importable module. In +R, it suffices to simply source the `SyncRNG.R` file. Before use, make sure to build both shared libraries using: make @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ You'll notice that the random numbers are indeed the same. Notes ----- -Since R is not capable of reliable handling integers larger than `2^32 - 1`, +Since R is not capable of reliably handling integers larger than `2^32 - 1`, the random numbers are internally capped at this value (using a bitwise and with `0x7FFFFFF`), this influences the quality of the random numbers. The random numbers are no longer uniformly distributed on `[0, 2^32 -1]`. For the |