From: Alexander Grund (alexander.grund_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-07-18 13:52:31
Am 18.07.23 um 14:18 schrieb Foelsche, Peter via Boost:
> I'm not certain if the behavior I'm seeing is expected or a problem.
>
> I'm getting different series of numbers from the two different boost versions in question.
The change is actually in Boost 1.64 which "improved the normal
distribution" with
https://github.com/boostorg/random/commit/c7d1b4f3516098b3e2fc8f8531d716881ab5834e
Discussion is in https://github.com/boostorg/random/pull/23
Other seem to have noticed the changed behavior too:
https://github.com/stan-dev/math/pull/601
Steven has to determine whether this is a regression or an
(semi-)intended side effect.
But AFAIK random number generators/distributions are not guaranteed to
generate the same numbers using different versions of the library.
Alex