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Article #132Re: random number generator
From: Jerry Dallal
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:38
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 19:38
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In article <55413@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin) writes: > > I would not accept anything with a short seed (say at least several > hundred bytes) as acceptable. Other than the believed cryptographically > strong Shamir and Blum-Miccaeli (sp?) procedures, which are extremely > costly, I know of none. The problem is at least moderate-term independence, > and correlations, periods, etc., do not answer the question. > Two questions of Professor Rubin: 1) What generator *would* you recommend? 2) The last time you generated pseudorandom numbers on a computer, what generator did you use? [Perhaps this should have been a REPLY rather than a FOLLOWUP because it carries on a dialogue by asking a question of a particular individual. I chose FOLLOWUP because RNGs seem to be of general interest. My apologies if I've committed a breach of etiquette.]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!bu.edu!jade.tufts.edu!news.tufts.edu!sage.hnrc.tufts.edu!jerry From: jerry@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) Newsgroups: sci.math.stat Subject: Re: random number generator Message-ID: <1992Jul29.143808.241@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu> Date: 29 Jul 92 19:38:07 GMT References: <1126@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul29.092934.23335@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.090353.237@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu> <55413@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Organization: USDA HNRC at Tufts University Lines: 21