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Foil 5 Simple Random Number Generator

From CPS615-End of Basic Overview of Random Numbers and First Part of Monte Carlo Integration Delivered Lectures of CPS615 Basic Simulation Track for Computational Science -- 22 October 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox *
Secs 175.6
Take the choice:
m = 231
a = 1103515245
c = 12345
Implemented in C as (64 bit)
newran = [a*oldran+c] & MASK
floatran = newran/2147483648.0
oldran = newran
floatran is uniformly distributed in [0,1]
MASK has lower 31 bits = 1and all higher bits = 0
This intuitively says that lower order bits of a complex multiplication are "essentially" random

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