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<h2 class="chapter">19 Quasi-Random Sequences</h2>
<p><a name="index-quasi_002drandom-sequences-1654"></a><a name="index-low-discrepancy-sequences-1655"></a><a name="index-Sobol-sequence-1656"></a><a name="index-Niederreiter-sequence-1657"></a>This chapter describes functions for generating quasi-random sequences
in arbitrary dimensions. A quasi-random sequence progressively covers a
d-dimensional space with a set of points that are uniformly
distributed. Quasi-random sequences are also known as low-discrepancy
sequences. The quasi-random sequence generators use an interface that
is similar to the interface for random number generators, except that
seeding is not required—each generator produces a single sequence.
<p>The functions described in this section are declared in the header file
<samp><span class="file">gsl_qrng.h</span></samp>.
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