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Message ID: 14799
Date: Thu Feb 10 22:55:47 GMT 2000
Author: Garramone, Michael (CCI-Las Vegas)
Subject: RE: RE: Battle bard vs singing bard (was Does CHR affec t Largos?)


yes but the function:

harmonic*(skepticism+apathy)/[rokenn+(athren/anthem)*fish tales]

further proves that i have no point.

Shada Bladestorm, L50 Wood Elf Bard
Tyria Sarkin, L39 High Elf Wizard
<Afterlife> Mithaniel Marr Server


>
> Now the kind of random numbers you would want in a game
> should be a uniform
> distribution (Every number has the same proberbility to show
> up) and it is
> rather simple with sufficient output from the rand function
> to determine wheter
> this holds true or not.
> I would guess that the generator used in EQ itself is infact
> very uniform
> distributed, but when you take a signal with _any_
> ditribution and puts it
> through a linear system/function. The output will change
> towards a gausian
> distribution. With a gausian distribution most numbers will
> be most likely to
> turn up around the center (if rand's range is 0 to 1 most
> numbers will be around
> 0.5).