random number generator random() questionable!!!?

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Fri Sep 7 07:18:05 AEST 1990


In article <1990Sep6.032718.16696 at dmp.csiro.au> sfy at dmp.csiro.au (Shane Youl) writes:
>    (see "Random Number Generators: Good Ones are Hard to
>    Find", Communications of the ACM, October 1988 v31 #10.)

I found it hard to believe that CACM accepted that article, which was
full of unjustified assertions and did not at all advance the art of
designing pseudo-random sequence generators.



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