Dear ROOTers, I have a couple of questions about methods of TRandom class. These are declarations from class TRandom virtual Float_t Gaus (Float_t mean = 0, Float_t sigma = 1) virtual Float_t Landau (Float_t mean = 0, Float_t sigma = 1) virtual Int_t Poisson (Float_t mean) virtual void Rannor (Float_t& a, Float_t& b) virtual Float_t Rndm (Int_t i = 0) The first question: why all this methods are not 'static' ones? It will be much simpler to use code double r = TRandom::Gaus(); // Very simple and clear. Like in CLHEP then TRandom rndm; double r = rndm.Gaus(); May be it is better to have static function (like in class TMath) plus method for setting user-defined engine of random generator instead of single virtual function? The second question. Are there any problems that prevents using Double_t type instead of Float_t? The code I have requires double type and can not work with Float_t. (That is why I use CLHEP instead of ROOT for generating random numbers.) P.S. The keyword 'static' is not present on generated HTML documentation. Take a look on http://root.cern.ch/root/html/TMath.html (you will not find 'static' keyword) and then on $ROOTSYS/TMath.h. With best wishes, Alexander.
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