# Uniform Random Generation of Decomposable Structures Using Floating-Point Arithmetic

Abstract : The {\em recursive method\/} formalized by Nijenhuis and Wilf \cite{NiWi78} and systematized by Flajolet, Van Cutsem and Zimmermann \cite{FlZiVa94}, is extended here to floating-point arithmetic. The resulting ADZ method enables one to generate decomposable data structures --- both labelled or unlabelled --- uniformly at random, in expected $O(n^{1+\epsilon})$ time and space, after a preprocessing phase of $O(n^{2+\epsilon})$ time, which reduces to $O(n^{1+\epsilon})$ for context-free grammars.
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Alain Denise, Paul Zimmermann. Uniform Random Generation of Decomposable Structures Using Floating-Point Arithmetic. [Research Report] RR-3242, INRIA. 1997. ⟨inria-00073447⟩

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