A note on pseudorandom number generators

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages

  Hellekalek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

SOFTWARE PACKAGE C RAND;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 0031212172     PISSN: 09284869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0928-4869(97)84227-9     Document Type: Note

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