The relationship between the multiplicative and mixed generators modulo 2b

  • Authors:

  • C. L. Overstreet

  • Affiliations:

  • State University, Bowling Green, Ohio

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSIM Simulation Digest
  • Year:
  • 1976

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Abstract

In 1951, D. H. Lehmer [4] first proposed the linear congruential technique, Xn+1 ≡ aXn + c (Mod M) as a source of random numbers. This technique has since become known as the multiplicative random number generator for c = 0 and as the mixed random number generator for c ≠ 0.