Actually it wasn't Knuth; only the 1997 3rd edition contains the lagged Fibonacci name. The first instance of the name I can find is Marsaglia-Tsay in 1985 [1]

Actually it wasn't Knuth; only the 1997 3rd edition contains the lagged Fibonacci name. The first instance of the name I can find is Marsaglia-Tsay in 1985 [1] (and possibly Marsaglia's 1984 "A current view of random number generators", which is impossible to find online). [1] https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(85)90192-2 https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(85)90192-2