Anyone knows what is the period of the Squeak random number generator ?
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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 ?
Benoit St-Jean MySQL DBA Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean
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