Good pedagogical random number generators

Authors:
J. S. Warford
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Venue:
SIGCSE '92 Proceedings of the twenty-third SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
1992

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Abstract

A CACM by Park and Miller [6] advocated a standard for random number generators based on the Lehmer generator [5] and criticised a number of computer science textbooks for presenting bad random number generators. This paper advocates the proposed standard and presents a set of generators based on theoretically sound principles that are also useful for microcomputer implementation and classroom presentations at the introductory level.