[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-latex3] master: Correct timing information in a piece of code documentation (aaca74d)

Bruno Le Floch bruno at le-floch.fr
Mon May 7 21:47:07 CEST 2018


Repository : https://github.com/latex3/latex3
On branch  : master
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/latex3/commit/aaca74de8e5233f41caf7125d66db7918877012b

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commit aaca74de8e5233f41caf7125d66db7918877012b
Author: Bruno Le Floch <bruno at le-floch.fr>
Date:   Mon May 7 15:47:07 2018 -0400

    Correct timing information in a piece of code documentation


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aaca74de8e5233f41caf7125d66db7918877012b
 l3kernel/l3fp-random.dtx |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/l3kernel/l3fp-random.dtx b/l3kernel/l3fp-random.dtx
index 6ff7331..e78f980 100644
--- a/l3kernel/l3fp-random.dtx
+++ b/l3kernel/l3fp-random.dtx
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 % non-uniformity from taking directly $N=3$).  This is detectable after
 % about $2^{56}/2^{2k} = 9\cdot 2^{56}/N^2$ random numbers. For $k=15$,
 % $N=98304$, this means roughly $2^{26}$ calls to the RNG
-% (experimentally this takes about 4 seconds on a 2 giga-hertz
+% (experimentally this takes at the very least 16 seconds on a 2 giga-hertz
 % processor). While this bias is not quite problematic, it is
 % uncomfortably close to being so, and it becomes worse as $N$ is
 % increased.  In our code, we shall thus combine several results from





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