Digital inversive pseudorandom numbers

  • Authors:
  • Jürgen Eichenauer-Herrmann;Harald Niederreiter

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Hochschule, Darmstadt, Germany;Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

A new algorithm, the digital inversive method, for generating uniform pseudorandom numbers is introduced. This algorithm starts from an inversive recursion in a large finite field and derives pseudorandom numbers from it by the digital method. If the underlying finite field has q elements, then the sequences of digital inversive pseudorandom numbers with maximum possible period length q can be characterized. Sequences of multiprecision pseudorandom numbers with very large period lengths are easily obtained by this new method. Digital inversive pseudorandom numbers satisfy statistical independence properties that are close to those of truly random numbers in the sense of asymptotic discrepancy. If q is a power of 2, then the digital inversive method can be implemented in a very fast manner.