From: kunst AT prl DOT philips DOT nl
Subject: Re: Help: Random Numbers Generator (c++)
To: stevev AT miser DOT uoregon DOT edu (Steve VanDevender)
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 11:11:12 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP users list)

> 
> Edwin L Phillips Jr writes:
> 
>  >   "Numerical Recipes in C", by Donald E. Knuth, has several "good" random 
>  > number generators, which you would probably want to use anyway for 
>  > anything serious.  I had the fortran version of the book, typed it in in 
>  > less than 20 minutes.  It was only about 50 lines of fortran.
> 
> _Numerical Recipes in C_ was not written by Donald E. Knuth, so
> you may have trouble finding it by author search.

That's correct.  The (first) author is William H. Press.

> 
> However, Knuth's _Seminumerical Algorithms_ (vol. 2 of his _The Art
> of Computer Programming_ series) also has several good
> pseudorandom number generators.
> 


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