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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: random number generator random() questionable!!!?
Message-ID: <13762@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 6 Sep 90 21:18:05 GMT
References: <1990Sep6.032718.16696@dmp.csiro.au>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1990Sep6.032718.16696@dmp.csiro.au> sfy@dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl) writes:
>    (see "Random Number Generators: Good Ones are Hard to
>    Find", Communications of the ACM, October 1988 v31 #10.)

I found it hard to believe that CACM accepted that article, which was
full of unjustified assertions and did not at all advance the art of
designing pseudo-random sequence generators.