Inversive pseudorandom number generators: concepts, results and links

  • Authors:
  • Peter Hellekalek

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Salzburg, A-5020 Salzburg, Austria

  • Venue:
  • WSC '95 Proceedings of the 27th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Stochastic simulation requires a reliable source of randomness. Inversive methods are an interesting and very promising new approach to produce uniform pseudorandom numbers. In this paper, we present evidence that these methods are an important contribution to our toolbox. We survey the outstanding performance of inversive pseudorandom number generators in theoretical and empirical tests, in comparison to linear generators. In addition, this paper contains tables of parameters to implement inversive congruential generators.