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From: dennis@blender.UUCP (Dennis (Grinch) Kapitan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Random #s (was Re: ARexx pseudo-random number generator)
Summary: PRNGs cont'd
Keywords: random numbers
Message-ID: <108@blender.UUCP>
Date: 1 Oct 89 05:17:39 GMT
References: <19504@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1989Sep13.032352.10321@agate.berkeley.edu> <194@teslab.lab.OZ>
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In article <194@teslab.lab.OZ>, andrew@teslab.lab.OZ (Andrew Phillips  289 8712) writes:
> There was an very well written article by David Wood on pseudo random number
> generators and the sorts of statistical tests that can be applied to test 
> them in the June 1988 Amiga Transactor magazine (Vol. 1, Number 2, page 38).

There was another article in September 1989 Amiga Transactor magazine (Vol. 2,
Number 6, page 46) by Eric Giguere dealing with random number generators and
testing them with the chi-square method.

  Dennis



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