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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Yet another pseudo-random number generator
Message-ID: <9653@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 15 Feb 89 17:21:47 GMT
References: <7383@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <5269@cognos.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <5269@cognos.UUCP> rayt@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.