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From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: random number generation
Date: 1998/01/02
Date: 1998-01-02T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.883757141@merv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 34AD053B.4F14233C@stud.uni-muenchen.de


Mok-kong says

<<Knuth may have found that some existing methods of combinations of
PRNGs or of shuffling are poor (I haven't checked through his book),
>>


Casual conversation on the net is not a substitute for reading the literature.
If you are interested in random number generators, you most certainly need to
be fully aware of the literature. The Knuth reference is just one of many that
should be familiar to you.





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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-12-19  0:00 random number generation Mok-kong Shen
1998-01-02  0:00 ` Mok-kong Shen
1998-01-02  0:00   ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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2010-12-30 15:29       ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-12-30 15:37         ` Mart van de Wege
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2010-07-13 23:02     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-14  4:42       ` John B. Matthews
2010-07-15 19:01         ` tonyg
2003-09-26  7:14 random " christoph.grein
2003-09-26  7:00 Andrew
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2003-09-26 17:58   ` Andrew
2003-09-26 19:25   ` Andrew
2003-09-26 19:35     ` chris
2003-09-26 21:44     ` tmoran
2003-09-27  1:40     ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-09-27  4:48       ` Andrew
1996-10-13  0:00 Random Number Generation parker
1996-10-13  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-14  0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-10-10  0:00  Dr J Parker
1996-10-12  0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-10-12  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
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1996-10-03  0:00 ` Mats Weber
1996-10-07  0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-09-23  0:00 Nigel J. Tracey
1996-09-23  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-10-02  0:00   ` Nigel J. Tracey
1996-10-03  0:00   ` Nigel J. Tracey
1996-09-25  0:00 ` James_Rogers
1996-09-26  0:00   ` Dale Stanbrough
1996-10-01  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1996-09-30  0:00 `  Dr J Parker
1996-10-01  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
1996-10-01  0:00     ` Keith Thompson
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