randn and ALLBITS. bug?

[Brian Blais]

Hello,

I am not sure whether octave-forge bugs go through the normal octave-bug
 reporting system.  If so, just tell me and I will file an official
report.  Anyway, for some reason, randn gives me weird results when the
ALLBITS flag is on (it took me a while to track it down to this).  I am
using octave version 2.1.64, and octave forge 2004-11-16 on Linux, with
the randmtzig patch posted earlier on the list.

With ALLBITS on, I get strings of low numbers, which are distinctly
non-gaussian, mixed in with gaussian-looking numbers.  Without the flag 
on, it works fine.  Any reason for this?


thanks,

                        Brian Blais

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