Re: Nonrandom Random Numbers?

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From: Duncan Murdoch
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 21:47

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In article <dmurdoch.393.726873235@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>The paper is Ferrenberg, A. M., Landau, D.P., and Wong, Y.J. (1992), Monte 
>Carlo simulations:  hidden errors from "good" random number generators,
>Physical Review Letters 69 no. 23, 3382-3384.

Oops, I forgot to mention:

The authors did find that simple variations on the algorithms (e.g. only use 
every 5th random number) gave acceptable results.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca

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