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AFILE (ASCII file)

• Definition :

  This generator takes its numbers from the named file. It expects each number in plain ascii (atof must be able to parse it) and on its own line. If EOF is reached, a warning is printed to stderr and reading continues at the beginning of the file.

• Name (as given to prng_new): "afile(some_file_name)".
• Properties:
  • prng_is_congruential is FALSE.
  • prng_can_seed is FALSE.
  • prng_can_fast_sub and prng_can_fast_con are FALSE.