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This was disappointing. Not a word about correlations between subsequent numbers, period length, all the things that matter if you’re actually generating signif
by pletnes 9y ago
This was disappointing. Not a word about correlations between subsequent numbers, period length, all the things that matter if you’re actually generating significant amounts of random numbers.
- pvg 9y agoThe chapter is not about writing and then testing new PRNGs. A uniform PRNG of sufficient quality for one's purpose is assumed. The key bit: "Most testers will be concerned with the second step of the grand strategy: testing code that transforms uniform random sequences into sequences with other distributions. Although very few people develop their own uniform generators, many people have reasons to develop custom nonuniform generators."