Re: How Random works?
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 04:11:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Documentation Center page tutorial/SomeNotesOnInternalImplementation, which is on-line at http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/tutorial/SomeNotesOnInternalImplementation.html says merely: "The default pseudorandom number generator for functions like RandomReal and RandomInteger uses a cellular automaton-based algorithm." On May 7, 2013, at 3:53 AM, Joug Raw <jougraw at gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to know which algorithm Mathematica are using to generate random > numbers. How large is its period? And how the deterministic part works? I > also need to have an quantitative idea about the bias in a random sequence > produced by this algorithm. > > I tried google it, but have nothing found regarding to any details about > the algorithm. Any one can help? Thanks. --- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2838 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305
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- How Random works?