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> Recently, news@ccu.umanitoba.ca wrote:
> 
> Jim Ritterbusch sent the following message on April 13, which
> I will quote:
> 
> A while ago, I sent a message searching for a random number generator that
> was a recent development in that it had a humongous period. A few of you
> replied directly expressing interest when and if I was able to get the
> information.

> It was developed by Arif Zaman and George Marsaglia of the Supercomputer
> Computations Research Institute at Florida State University. It has a
> period of over 10^356 (or about 10^250 random numbers for each atom in
> the universe !).
> 
> An IBM/PC version including source code for assembler and C is available
> as the file ULTRA101.ZIP. I was able to anonymous ftp this from
> garbo.uwasa.fi in /pub/msdos/math. According to archie, it is also
> available at rigel.acs.oakland.edu in /pub/msdos/math.
> 

            Both machines exist.  However, the /pub/msdos/math 
        directory exists only on rigel.acs.oakland.edu.  Also, 
        ULTRA101.ZIP no longer exists!  It has been replaced by
        fsultra1.zip.  I quote from its README file
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FSU - ULTRA The greatest random number generator that ever was
            or ever will be.  Way beyond Super-Duper.
            (Just kidding, but we think its a good one.)

Authors:    Arif Zaman (arif@stat.fsu.edu) and
            George Marsaglia (geo@stat.fsu.edu).

Date:       27 May 1992

Version:    1.05

Copyright:  To obtain permission to incorporate this program into
            any commercial product, please contact the authors at
            the e-mail address given above or at

            Department of Statistics and
            Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
            Florida State University
            Tallahassee, FL 32306.


CHANGES: (from ULTRA101.ZIP)
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        Further speedup of assembler code.

        More than doubled the speed of ULTRA.C (using if's to do SWB).

        Caught serious error in vni's. Modified program so it could
        be implemented on machines which worry about alignment.
        This caused added space, and changed the output stream.
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