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Article #11899Re: Derrick Lehmer & pseudo random numbers generation
From: Paul Bartholdi, Geneva Observato...
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 07:46
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 07:46
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In article <607@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM>, dgh@dgh.Eng.Sun.COM (David Hough) writes: > The late Derrick Lehmer, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, was a computer > architect, system designer, system implementer, application programmer and > end user before any of these terms were defined, and in fact before at > least half of the people on comp.arch were born. ... For me, his was best known for having introduced in 1948 the "Linear Congruential Method" used universaly to generate pseudo random numbers. Sadly, very few people give any reference to his papers on this subject (Knuth is an exception). Question: Does any one knows of a hardware implementation of the LCM ? Tanks for all, Paul Bartholdi, Geneva Observatory.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!ugun2b!ugobs!bartho From: bartho@obs.unige.ch (Paul Bartholdi, Geneva Observatory, Switzerland) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Derrick Lehmer & pseudo random numbers generation Message-ID: <1991May31.094614.883@obs.unige.ch> Date: 31 May 91 07:46:13 GMT Article-I.D.: obs.1991May31.094614.883 References: <607@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 14