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From: mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: psuedo-random number generators
Keywords: Random Number Generator
Message-ID: <1989Sep26.013914.1796@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 01:39:14 GMT
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In article <16646@watdragon.waterloo.edu> ccplumb@rose.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) writes:
 mwm@eris.berkeley.edu (Mike (I'll think of something yet) Meyer) writes:
<>> A trick recommended by the authors of
<>> _Numerical Recipes_ (in addition to their own, portable generators) is to
<>> "scramble " your generator by calling it twice;  the first time is
<>> used as an index to an array of numbers from the generator.
<>
<> Knuth recommends a better version of this - use two generators, one
<> to generate indices, one to generate values.
<