Re: Random numbers
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- Subject: [mg6544] Re: [mg6499] Random numbers
- From: David Withoff <withoff>
- Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 23:01:43 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
> Hi Mathematicans! > > Does anybody have information about the algorithm which is being used by > Mathematicas Random[] function? > I observed some difference to such standard random number generators like > ran1 and ran2 from `Numerical Recipes in C'. > > Any help strongly appreciated! > > Cheers, Bernhard Notes about this and other algorithms used in Mathematica can be found in Appendix A.9 of the Mathematica book, and on the Wolfram Research web site. See, for example http://www.wolfram.com/support/Kernel/Symbols/System/R/Random.html Dave Withoff Wolfram Research