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Subject: Re: wanted: FAST binary random number gene
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Organization: Dancing Horse Hill
In-Reply-To: Tony Hana's message of 17 Mar 1995 14:01:20 GMT
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 20:09:59 GMT
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Tony Hana writes:
> How about messing up the numbers, using xor add and rotate?
See Knuth, _Seminumerical Algorithms_ for an amusing anecdote about the pitfalls
of generating random numbers by "messing up the numbers".
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John Hasler uunet!hasler!root
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin USA
