Is their a probabilistic to deterministic calculator web abb?

[Ryang]

Hello. I'm currently making (or attempting to make...) a mathematical model based around mutation in a hypothetical organism (that is, one in which all the mutation rates and genome sizes are known).

I am currently graphing a particular feature of this model, involving mutation rates, but I don't have a 3x10⁸ sided dice to change probabilities into certainties. In order to graph the number of mutations I need to know for certain if a mutation HAS or HASN'T occurred, not its chances of actually happening. Is there any free application which will "throw the dice" for me??

Thanks

 

[Mute]

So... you want a random number generator? If you're writing a program in C or Matlab or whatever, they should have a built in random number generator, or a library you can download by googling random number generator. What kind of random number generator do you want? 3x10^8 outcomes with equal probability?

 

[Ryang]

So... you want a random number generator? If you're writing a program in C or Matlab or whatever, they should have a built in random number generator, or a library you can download by googling random number generator. What kind of random number generator do you want? 3x10^8 outcomes with equal probability?

This model is equations and spreadsheets only, and I no little about programming. Anyway, I need a genuine random number generator, not an periodic psuedorandom code-based number generator (One I was using seemed to repeatedly give me numbers over ^6, never below).

I found one genuine random number generator, Random.org, which is handy, but it can't handle numbers over ^8, which is unfortunate as I need one that can handle ^9 :(.

I just need a program that will randomly generate one number between 1 and 3,000,000,000.

 

[chronon]

I need a genuine random number generator, not an periodic psuedorandom code-based number generator (One I was using seemed to repeatedly give me numbers over ^6, never below)

I doubt whether being pseudorandom causes this. Did you check thousands of values for the few which would be less than 1000000?

 

[Mute]

This model is equations and spreadsheets only, and I no little about programming. Anyway, I need a genuine random number generator, not an periodic psuedorandom code-based number generator (One I was using seemed to repeatedly give me numbers over ^6, never below).

I found one genuine random number generator, Random.org, which is handy, but it can't handle numbers over ^8, which is unfortunate as I need one that can handle ^9 :(.

I just need a program that will randomly generate one number between 1 and 3,000,000,000.

I don't see why a pseudo-random number generator would be a problem. I've never heard of anyone having to use a genuine random number generator. If your pseudo RNG isn't giving you what you expect, you might be using it wrong or using one with a range of values not suitable for your purposes.

[strike]As for the RNG you were using, you can choose to get integers between 0 and ~10^8, so you could always just multiply every result you get by 10. This increases the mean and standard deviation, but if the numbers are close to uniformly distributed it doesn't matter.[/strike] Scratch that, that only works for real numbers. For integers you'd lose 1 to 9.