home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
/ NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1 / NN_1993_1.iso / spool / sci / math / stat / 2748 < prev    next >
Encoding:
Internet Message Format  |  1993-01-12  |  1.1 KB
  1. Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!netnews.noc.drexel.edu!coe.drexel.edu!n1-24-215-coe-abbotts.coe.drexel.edu!chaas
  2. From: chaas@coe.drexel.edu (Chuck Haas)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  4. Subject: Nonrandom Random Numbers?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan12.132319.6437@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>
  6. Date: 12 Jan 93 13:23:19 GMT
  7. Sender: news@cbis.ece.drexel.edu
  8. Organization: Drexel University
  9. Lines: 16
  10. X-Xxmessage-Id: <A77831AA8C0118D7@n1-24-215-coe-abbotts.coe.drexel.edu>
  11. X-Xxdate: Tue, 12 Jan 93 00:28:26 GMT
  12. X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17
  13.  
  14. There was an article in today's (1/12/93) New York Times (page 1, section
  15. C) about some IBM researchers who found deficiencies in "standard" random
  16. number generators when using some crystallographic type of test.  Anyone
  17. on the net who would care to add details?  What generators (I presume one
  18. of the linear congruential ones); but did these also include the
  19. shuffling algorithm advocated in Numerical Recipes?
  20.  
  21.  
  22.  
  23.  
  24.  
  25. Charles N. Haas
  26. Professor, Environmental Engineering
  27. Drexel University, Philadelphia PA 19104
  28. ======================================
  29. CHaas@COE.Drexel.Edu
  30.