Yet another pseudo-random number generator
Scott Schwartz
schwartz at shire.cs.psu.edu
Thu Feb 16 07:39:22 AEST 1989
In article <9653 at smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn at smoke (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
>Virtually all PRNG schemes in common use have provable
>statistical behavior. That doesn't mean they're always
>suitable. In fact I'm not enthised about that CACM article.
Didn't the article state that the generators they talked about
were to be considered a lower bound in quality? In other words,
there is now no excuse to use a |worse| PRNG than the ones in the
article.
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Scott Schwartz <schwartz at shire.cs.psu.edu>
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