Seeds for random number generators

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 90-93

  Marsaglia, George ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CODES (STANDARDS); COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

GAMING DEVICES; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS;

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION;

EID: 0038780689     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/769800.769827     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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