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- From: jerry@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: random number generatorDIR
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.092917.244@ginger.hnrc.tufts.edu>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 14:29:16 GMT
- References: <1126@kepler1.rentec.com> <1992Jul29.092934.23335@cl.cam.ac.uk> <1992Jul29.090353.237@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu> <1992Jul30.020515.16652@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Jul30.020515.16652@u.washington.edu>, charlie@ernie.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul29.090353.237@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu> jerry@nutmeg.hnrc.tufts.edu (Jerry Dallal) writes:
- >
- >> I suspect one of the most FAQs is what generator to use. Can we not establish
- >> a short list of GAAs? I nominate the Wichmann-Hill generator with the
- >> McLeod modification. (I hold off on posting the code until I hear whether
- >> this is a GAA!)
- >
- > I nominate Marsaglia's "Super-Duper" generator, though it's 20 years old
- > and not the one Marsaglia is using now.
- >
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- SUPER-DUPER would have been my second choice. What is Marsaglia using now, and
- why is it not SUPER-DUPER?
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