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Original Generator
original generator
The default random number generator uses a lagged Fibonacci generator
given by
where
is the
'th random number. This generator produces
small integer-valued numbers. For larger integer, the small random
integers are concatenated to produce larger integers. For
floating-point numbers, the bits from this generator are used as the
bits of the floating-point significand.
Peter Van Eynde
2001-03-08