A note on a pseudo-random number generator for personal computers

Authors:
Heng Liang;Qinghua Liu;Fengshan Bai
Affiliations:
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Venue:
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Year:
2005

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Abstract

A combined random number generator by Wichmann and Hill is studied in this note. Statistical and numerical computations show that a good initial value for this generator is not so easy to obtain, and hence the use of such generator seems dubious.