Talk:RANDU

Knuth citation
What the hell is Knuth (1998), p. 188? I can't find anything by that name and the only thing that comes up is TAOCP 2 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A317:E146:8300:E9A5:BD25:C6EC:F3A7 (talk) 20:45, 28 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Alas, the horror of detached "Harvard" citations. Tagged with . Artoria2e5 🌉 10:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

IBM's
Why is there no mention of IBM in this article, isn't it more commonly known as the IBM RANDU? 140.203.12.240 (talk) 11:55, 15 April 2007

Cite
In the section:

"As a result of this correlation the points in three dimensional space (mod 231) fall in a comparatively small number of planes, 15 to be exact (see Marsaglia's paper). As a result of the wide use of RANDU in the early 70's many results from that time are seen as suspicious.[citation needed]"

The article Linear_congruential_generator cites Press, William H., et al. (1992). Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77: The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd edition. ISBN 0-521-43064-X.

Don't know if this is helpful, though. 71.177.240.236 (talk) 06:19, 5 April 2008 (UTC)


 * No, it's not. Muntoo (talk) 17:55, 1 July 2011 (UTC)