On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:24:07 +0100, Andrew Bernard
According to the package documentation for System.Random:
This implementation uses the Portable Combined Generator of L'Ecuyer [System.Random] for 32-bit computers, transliterated by Lennart Augustsson.
The paper in question is given as:
Pierre L'Ecuyer, /Efficient and portable combined random number generators/, Comm ACM, 31(6), Jun 1988, pp742-749
Does anybody have a copy of this paper?
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