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IMPLEMENTATION OF FORTRAN RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS ON COMPUTERS WITH ONE'S COMPLEMENT ARITHMETIC
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THE MIXED METHOD OF RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION: A TUTORIAL
Several motivations are recognized for user-defined random number generators
in preference to built-in generators. The mixed method of random number generation is discussed) and the conditions for achieving full period with a modulus of 2^b
are explained. Implementation of mixed random number generators is affected
both by the computer and language used. Guidelines are presented for realizing
acceptable mixed generators on several machines using the FORTRAN, PL/l and
SNOBOL4 languages
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE MULTIPLICATIVE AND MIXED GENERATORS MODULO 2^b
MacLaren and Marsaglia [4] comment that their test results suggest
that the multiplicative generator performs better than the mixed generator.
We attempt to answer the above question by showing that for any sequence of real values in (0,1) produced by the multiplicative generator modulo 2^b a corresponding mixed generator exists which, for practical purposes, produces
the same sequence of real values
SOME EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS
A series of experiments with composite random number generators utilizing
shuffling tables is described. The factors investigated are: (1) the magnitude
of the modulus (equivalently, the word-size of the machine), (2) the effect of
the modulus value for the indexing generator, and (3) the table size used for
shuffling. Experimental results indicate that:
(1) on large word-length machines (permitting large modulus values), shuffling accomplishes little in comparison with selected simple generators,
(2) on small word-length machines, shuffling can produce sequences having an increased period and demonstrating acceptable statistical behavior, and
(3) a table size of 2 produces results comparable to those obtained with larger tables