H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > After playing around with Wolfram Alpha for way too long, it seems that > a suitable bias function would be to take the fourth root of the PRNG > value, i.e. raise it to the power 0.25. > Urk, I managed to get myself completely confused -- I did the series approximation on the wrong side of inverting the function. The correct power is actually 1.5 (over the range 0 to 1), a value > 1 is necessary to bias the PRNG toward the beginning (x = 0) of the list. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html