Excel's help mentions the Abramovitz (1969?) which you can also find as a ref in 25 years old HP calculators. It is not enough for most applications. The one in the addind for statistical analysis seems to be different but Microsoft never answered my questions; Yves
"Glen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Some time within the last year, I read in a text (or possibly > a paper, but I am fairly confident it was in a text) discussing > random numbers what random number generator Excel uses, as well > as some comments on its attributes (some bad, some less so). > > Recently I wanted to mention the discussion in the book > in some notes I was writing. > > I thought I knew where I had seen it, but rereading the text > in question, it doesn't seem to mention Excel at all. > > Does anyone have a clue what book this might have been in? > > Glen . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
