It’s time to get those jack-o-lanterns twinkling for Halloween. If you don’t want to use candles or buy a jack-o-lantern light this Halloween you can do like [Johannes Bauer] and code your own ...

Combining parallel multiple recursive sequences provides an efficient way of implementing random number generators with long periods and good structural properties. Such generators are statistically ...

Mathematics of Computation, Vol. 51, No. 184 (Oct., 1988), pp. 757-759 (3 pages) A nonlinear congruential pseudorandom number generator is studied where the modulus is a power of two. Investigation of ...