21 Jan
2008
21 Jan
'08
6:32 p.m.
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 02:24 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
I wrote:
That said, looking around briefly, I came up with this paper by L'Ecuyer et al that does seem to describe a decent random generator with properties of split worked out:
Derek Elkins wrote:
According to the documentation That -is- what we have.
No, we have a much older algorithm of L'Ecuyer. It has a much smaller period - 2e18 vs. 3e51. Much less was known about testing generator randomness at that time.
Yeah, my fault.