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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> Benoit St-Jean
> MySQL DBA
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