Re: How Random works?
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- Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 04:12:32 -0400 (EDT)
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tutorial/RandomNumberGenerationOverview gives the eight methods you can use, or how to roll your own method On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 12:53 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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- How Random works?