Re: random number generatorDIR

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From: Charlie Geyer
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 22:18

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In article <1992Jul30.092917.244@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu>
jerry@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:

> SUPER-DUPER would have been my second choice.  What is Marsaglia using now,
> and why is it not SUPER-DUPER?

Add-with-carry or subtract-with-borrow generators.

See volume 1 number 1 (I think) of Annals of Applied Probability.

-- 
Charles Geyer
School of Statistics
University of Minnesota
charlie@umnstat.stat.umn.edu

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