Random and whrandom
Alex Martelli
aleaxit at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 23 04:56:55 EST 2001
"Tim Roberts" <timr at probo.com> wrote in message
news:ei8q6t0ohuded1oiet6qe79e1eco529ote at 4ax.com...
[snip]
> whrandom is a linear congruential random number generator. The properties
Well, not exactly -- it's a Wichmann-Hill (or rather 'the' W-H) RNG,
that is, 3 small linear congruential RNGs whose current values are
(normalized and) summed. Still, that's doesnt affect your main
points, I think.
Alex
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