https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121421
--- Comment #8 from Pedro Giffuni <[email protected]> --- (In reply to comment #4) > > There's also a serious error in the Microsoft description. It is true that > if those fractions were random on [0,1] the fractional part of their sum is > also random. But the IX, IY, and IZ sequences are hardly random at all. So > the claim is insufficient as a rationale for the heightened randomness of > the combination. > > The only remark that Donald Knuth makes on the Wichmann-Hill generator is > that they provide a reliable method for computing the mod function of a > double-word value and a single-word modulus. This arises in the solution to > Exercise 3.2.1.1(9) in The Art of Computer Programming. > Apparently you have to pay to read this but the the title says it all ;). http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016794730800162X Cheers, Pedro. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.
