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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.

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