Withdrawn: 8326227: Rounding error that may distort computeNextGaussian results

[duke]

On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 04:25:16 GMT, Chris Hennick <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This provides a slightly more accurate bounding limit for `computeNextExponentialSoftCapped` when calling it from `computeNextGaussian`. This could cause the `while (computeNextExponentialSoftCapped(rng, limit) < limit)` check in `computeNextGaussian` on line 1402 to always be true, making the `nextGaussian` runtime unbounded in the worst case; but more likely, it would give a result that was truncated too close to zero.
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> This change is being tested prior to submission to OpenJDK by https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/17703/commits/b8be051cbf40a6a05fafc6a2c76942e9e0b11fdf.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17703