Random numbers help files

AlexHarker / AHarker_Externals

A Set of 80+ Externals for a variety of tasks in MaxMSP.

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Random numbers help files #40

Open MattS6464 opened 2 months ago

MattS6464 commented 2 months ago

Updated help files and added audio examples to randfloats, randomvals and randomvals~

AlexHarker commented 2 months ago

ahonise~ uses a different RNG to the one stated. Details are:

A complementary modulo with carry algorithm (proposed by George Marsaglia) Details can be found in Marsaglia, G. (2003). "Random number generators". Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods 2 See - http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1725&context=jmasm

Suggest only the first line for the object description, but perhaps the details for the xml if there is somewhere to put it (this is in the source, but wasn't updated in the helpfile so you weren't to know)

AlexHarker commented 2 months ago

The above applies to all four objects.

Also:

could the webarchive link break at a better point somehow (resize the comment box)
across multiple patches there's a bpatcher with the phrase "reset after changing parameters)" - there's a missing opening bracket on that
across multiple objects the gaussian input should be named "list" not "message" or "gaussian distribution"
randomvals~ has an "input" message which should be in the signal category
randomvals should have an "int" message and not "input"

MattS6464 commented 2 months ago

Corrected the link to the RNG source. Changed xml files to correctly show method names. Tided issues in help files.