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How can I generate sequence of uniformly distributed random numbers in MATLAB without using RAND function?

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PRATHYUSHA DEVI KOSALA on 11 Aug 2015

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Commented: Brendan Hamm on 11 Aug 2015

How can I generate sequence of uniformly distributed random numbers in MATLAB without using RAND function?

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James Tursa on 11 Aug 2015

Why do you want to do this? What don't you like about RAND?

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Walter Roberson on 11 Aug 2015

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Brendan Hamm on 11 Aug 2015

Cleve Moler blogs on the Mersenne-Twister Algorithm which has the longest period of any RNG for doulbe precision.

LCG is really easy to implement though and likely the reason your MP3 player does a bad job at "shuffling" your music.

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