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 {{full citation needed}}. Artoria2e5 🌉 10:37, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

Kunth's "truly horrible" quote is from The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 2. I added a full <ref> as best I could. David costanzo (talk) 00:48, 1 October 2025 (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)

References

The 3 given references are, of course, superb. But they are not directly accessible online? I propose to include at least one very good online reference to Karl Entacher's collection of classical pseudorandom number generators with linear structures - advanced version and then to add a footnote section with explicit citation where needed.--Михал Орела (talk) 18:00, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

New links: https://www.mymaths[.]xyz/webdocs/collection-of-lcgs, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/2683298. Artoria2e5 🌉 10:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)