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Subject: Re: Do you use RANDOM NUMBERS?
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Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 15:49:28 EST
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Summary: Do _not_ use DES for simulations

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The book "numerical recipes" includes code for both DES and some other,
much simpler but not naive, random number generators.  They specifically
recommend _not_ to use DES for the generation of random numbers, if you
need a lot of them in a hurry.  (When I need them, I need many millions!)
Of course, if you have DES _hardware_...

I wrote a speeded-up version of the 'ran2' routine in that book, in C.
(And also some much faster routines in 68000 AL.)

- Moshe Braner

PS: I looked for the book by Kennedy and Gentle but didn't find it.
Could somebody post the "modified shift register" method from it?