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And you'd be wrong Here: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/07/testing-the-pcg-random-number-generator/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/07/testing-t
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And you'd be wrong
Here: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/07/testing-the-pcg-random-number-generator/ https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2017/07/07/testing-the-pcg-ra...
- aappleby 5y agoI could very well be wrong, I haven't checked yet. That said, I have done a bit of work with these sort of things.
- aappleby 5y agoI'll read the paper.
- aappleby 5y agoAh, I missed that there was a data-dependent rotation applied in the output. So it's a lcg plus xorshift plus ddr. Still weaker than I'd like, but if it passes DieHard etc then it passes.
- 37ef_ced3 5y agoYeah, that pseudorandom rotation is what makes PCG novel