Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oddjob.UChicago.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!oddjob!paul From: paul@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP (Paul Schinder) Newsgroups: net.wanted,net.astro.expert,net.math.stat Subject: Need tests for random number generators Message-ID: <553@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> Date: Sat, 5-Jan-85 00:54:00 EST Article-I.D.: oddjob.553 Posted: Sat Jan 5 00:54:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 7-Jan-85 02:27:32 EST Reply-To: paul@oddjob.UUCP (Paul Schinder) Organization: U. Chicago: Astronomy & Astrophysics Lines: 18 Xref: watmath net.wanted:5478 net.astro.expert:92 net.math.stat:76 <> I am doing Monte Carlo integrations on several different machines, and I am using several different random number generators. I don't know how reliable these generators actually are. Does anyone out there have a test program which will take the output of a random number generator and check the numbers produced to see whether they are suitable for use as random numbers? What tests are usually used to test random number generators? Thanks. -- Paul Schinder Astronomy and Astrophysics Center University of Chicago uucp: ..!ihnp4!oddjob!paul