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- From: rdnelson@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Roger D. Nelson)
- Subject: Re: Nonrandom Random Numbers?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan13.002020.10338@Princeton.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 00:20:20 GMT
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- In article <dmurdoch.396.726875230@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >In article <dmurdoch.393.726873235@mast.queensu.ca> dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >>The paper is Ferrenberg, A. M., Landau, D.P., and Wong, Y.J. (1992), Monte
- >>Carlo simulations: hidden errors from "good" random number generators,
- >>Physical Review Letters 69 no. 23, 3382-3384.
- >
- >Oops, I forgot to mention:
- >
- >The authors did find that simple variations on the algorithms (e.g. only use
- >every 5th random number) gave acceptable results.
- >
- >Duncan Murdoch
- >dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
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- I must be missing something, for _this_ result suggest high-frequency
- autocorrelations that are eliminated by dumping the 2-4th elements.
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- Roger
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