Notes on a New Pseudo-Random Number Generator

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Notes on a New Pseudo-Random Number Generator

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Journal of the ACM (JACM) archive
Volume 8 , Issue 2 (April 1961) table of contents

Pages: 163 - 167

Year of Publication: 1961

ISSN:0004-5411

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Martin Greenberger

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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	1	A. Rotenberg, A New Pseudo-Random Number Generator, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.7 n.1, p.75-77, Jan. 1960 [doi>10.1145/321008.321019]
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	J. L. Allard , A. R. Dobell , T. E. Hull, Mixed Congruential Random Number Generators for Decimal Machines, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.10 n.2, p.131-141, April 1963
	Arthur Gill, On a Weight Distribution Problem, with Application to the Design of Stochastic Generators, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.10 n.1, p.110-121, Jan. 1963
	Frank Stockmal, Calculations with Pseudo-Random Numbers, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.11 n.1, p.41-52, Jan. 1964
	W. J. Hemmerle, Generating pseudorandom numbers on a two's complement machine such as the IBM 360, Communications of the ACM, v.12 n.7, p.382-383, July 1969
	George C. Canavos, A comparative analysis of two concepts in the generation of uniform pseudo-random numbers, Proceedings of the 1967 22nd national conference, p.485-501, January 1967, Washington, D.C., United States
	T. E. Hull , A. R. Dobell, Mixed Congruential Random Number Generators for Binary Machines, Journal of the ACM (JACM), v.11 n.1, p.31-40, Jan. 1964
	A. De Matteis , S. Pagnutti, Pseudorandom permutation, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, v.142 n.2, p.367-375, 15 May 2002