Nonrandom Random Numbers?

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From: Chuck Haas
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:23

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There was an article in today's (1/12/93) New York Times (page 1, section
C) about some IBM researchers who found deficiencies in "standard" random
number generators when using some crystallographic type of test.  Anyone
on the net who would care to add details?  What generators (I presume one
of the linear congruential ones); but did these also include the
shuffling algorithm advocated in Numerical Recipes?





Charles N. Haas
Professor, Environmental Engineering
Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104
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