Squeak random number generator period

John M McIntosh johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Sun Jun 5 20:06:15 UTC 2005


The late David N Smith had a wiki page talking about the algorithm here:
http://wiki.cs.uiuc.edu/VisualWorks/Random+Numbers

If someone can find the paper Park, S. and K. Miller. 1988. Random  
Number Generators: Good Ones are Hard to Find. Communications of the  
ACM. 31(10): 1192-1201.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=63042

then it might talk about the period. Another reference shows
The period is (2 power: 31)-2  >  2.1*(10 power: 9)

On Jun 5, 2005, at 12:40 PM, Benoit St-Jean wrote:

> Anyone knows what is the period of the Squeak random
> number generator ?
>
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