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In article <1989Sep22.082034.1405@agate.berkeley.edu> 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.

No, if you read Knuth, he says using the same generator is better worst-
case and at least as good on average.  I happen to like his additive
generator (x_n = x_{n-24}+x_{n-55}).
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	-Colin