Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!ogccse!blake!milton!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!alberta!calgary!xenlink!blender!dennis 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> Organization: The South Pole Lines: 18 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 -- > Monday is a hard way | Dennis "Grinch" Kapitan | Send all FLAMES < > to spend one-seventh | dennis@blender.UUCP | and ICBMs to: < > of your life. | alberta!calgary!xenlink!blender | LONG: 75 45' < \_____________________/^\_______________________________/^\_LAT:___45_25'__/