Yeah, I’d think if I had to sit down and write a definition for LCG, it would just be X_(n+1) = (a X_n + c) mod m. Since we’ve discovered “high bits good, low b

Yeah, I’d think if I had to sit down and write a definition for LCG, it would just be X_(n+1) = (a X_n + c) mod m. Since we’ve discovered “high bits good, low bits bad”, we can create generators that are based on LCGs but either throw away the low bits or mix them in. I don’t know if I’d call them LCGs, though.