Quote from: bb on August 15, 2011, 01:39:28 PM

Quote from: organofcorti on August 15, 2011, 06:47:47 AM

You can't use anything that will provide a uniform random distribution. It has to be at least a binomially distributed random, and at best a time-distributed fractional poisson distribution.

I'm using the built in poisson distribution randomiser built into R with some jiggery pokery to make it a poisson time-distributed random(really share based) instead of the standard poisson distribution http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/Poisson.html. Ryouiki has a bespoke poisson randomiser built on mersenne twister as a random seeder.

The described method does not result in uniformly distributed pool shares.

Also in case you missed it, Meni replied to you here.

I was responding to deepceleron, not you bb. My response to meni: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=36018.msg457483#msg457483

Edit: and now thanks to Meni I've sped up the simulator hugely by generating random numbers directly by using geomtrically distributed random number generator (rgeom) instead of using rpois and then a 'find block' loop.