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From: FLYNN%EVALUN11.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Mark F. Flynn)
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Subject:      Re: bad random number generators: a quick test
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Date: 30 May 91 19:50:14 GMT
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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@EVALUN11.(EARN BITNET)

Departamto de Fisica Atomica y Nuclear
Universidad de Valencia
Spain