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How good are current implementations of rand() in C?
There is a lot of literature that indicates using rand() for simulations might be harmful. A couple of them are as follows:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/...
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What PRNG function is this?
This is a 16-bit PRNG function, transcribed from assembly to C for easier reading:
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PETCs - How should one initialize PetscRandom?
The documentation of PETSc shows an example of usage:
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Maintain Uniform Distribution across Subranges
Note: this is a continuation of Generate Random Number outside Bounds.
I have a function (thanks to the previous question) with the following prototype which returns an integer in the range $[0,b]$, $...
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WELL pseudo-random number generations
I've used MT19937 in a test harness to generate uniformly (unsigned) 32-bit [0, $2^{32}$- 1] values, based on the original Authors' mt19937.c implementation, to ...
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