bad random number generators: a quick test

Mark F. Flynn FLYNN%EVALUN11.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu
Fri May 31 05:50:14 AEST 1991

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A quick test of a random number generator is to generate a series
r(1) ... r(n), and then plot r(i) versus r(i+1). You should get a
uniform distribution throughout. If not, you are seeing correlations,
which is bad.

Mark Flynn
FLYNN at EVALUN11.(EARN BITNET)

Departamto de Fisica Atomica y Nuclear
Universidad de Valencia
Spain

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