Re: best software environment for numerical analysis

From: Ion Saliu (isaliu_at_onebox.com)
Date: 09/16/04 

Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 15:39:41 +0000 (UTC)

Phil:

Forever philosophical be your name for it proves the existence of odds
and probability!

I am myself not only a blackjack player, but also a gambler’s gambler.
I have authored a huge web site dedicated to gambling science,
including blackjack. The main blackjack page is:

http://www.saliu.com/blackjack.html

(Don’t be disappointed by the cold mathematical truth on card
counting!)

I have done also a lot of programming in gambling, lottery,
mathematics, statistics, etc. I use Visual Basic sometimes. But my
tool of choice is the 32-bit Basic compiler from PowerBasic. It really
is powerful. My FTP download site has dozens of free programs compiled
with PowerBasic Console Compiler (PBCC).

I also offer free source code in PBCC to generate unique random
numbers (http://www.saliu.com/random-numbers.html). That might be of
interest to you, since I assume you want to generate and analyze
random hands for blackjack. You may also want to look at the PROGRAM
of combinatorics: PermuteCombine.EXE. It calculates and generates all
possible sets of numbers and words: exponents, permutations,
arrangements, and combinations. There is also software to calculate
the probability and odds for many gambling situations. My freeware is
available from this entry point:

http://www.saliu.com/infodown.html

The programs have meaningful descriptions, plus links to more detailed
information.

If you want perfect accuracy in odds calculation, only generation in
lexicographical order will do. But today’s computers are incapable of
working with trillions of trillions of gazillions of googols. For now,
we can only settle for random simulation in gambling, especially
blackjack (4 or more decks).

Hope to see your program soon. Hopefully, you’ll make it freeware!

Laius Usail,
Doctor in Occult Science of Gambling
http://www.saliu.com/occult-science-gambling.html

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:29:45 +0100, Phil Webb wrote:
>I am about to embark on a software project with intensive numerical
>analysis and i have been out of it(ie software) for a while.
>
>below is my project but i wanted to know what the best language to
use
>is. My best guess is to use c++ and use kdevelop 3.1 on Suse Linux
>9.1, and that i will be able to compile other people's C or C++ code
>from the internet. (other linux distro's
>
>15 years ago i did a fortran simulation utilised in diffraction
>co-efficients for antenna desgn. now i assume all the fortran stuff
is
>now essentially available in C or C++(or at least the stuff i need).
>
>I assume for numerical analysis, from what i have recently read on
the
>internet, delphi and Python are NOT the way to go.
>
>Project Description: I am writing a blackjack simulation for card
>counting anaylis. will be calculations of 0% advantage, confidence
>intervals variance etc for numerous rule variations of a game that is
>well suited to object orientated design. Comparisons of actual
>recorded results with expected results etc.
>
>So my questions are: any info appreciated. :) :)
>
>1. Delphi/python and other high level langauges are NOT the way to
go?
>2. C++ is roughly on the right track?
>3. kdevelop will give me reasonable CASE tools etc/ software
>engineering environment? (i want to spend the least amount of time
>doing the software)
>4. If i wanted to get the best tools available does that mean
spending
>lots of $$$$ on tools like Rational or other. is this right? just how
>"bad" is kdevelop compared to these other tools?

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