Yet another pseudo-random number generator
Doug Gwyn
gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Feb 16 03:21:47 AEST 1989
In article <5269 at cognos.UUCP> rayt at cognos.UUCP (R.) writes:
>Actually, CACM had an article on random number generators
>a few months back (Nov or Dec) and gives the pseudocode for
>some statistically PROVEN random generators.
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.
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