On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 03:52:37 -0800, David Schultz wrote: > > You can do better than the present generator with 32 bits of state. > See the following page by Neal Wagner (not to be confused with David Wagner): > http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~wagner/laws/rng.html > The section on LCGs suggests that the multiplier FreeBSD uses (7^5) > is not particularly good, and points out some better values suggested > by Knuth. I can't find the original discussion in TAOCP vol. 2, but
Thank for your pointer, I'll look at later. > Well, if 0 doesn't work, and 10 doesn't work, and 100 doesn't > work, then I'm not too hopeful about 2000. I appeal to Asimov's > zero, one, infinity law. I found that f.e. 50 is worse than 100, but 200 isn't better. 100 is better than 0 because remove monotonically increased sequence. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://ache.pp.ru/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
