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As shown above, LCGs do not always use all of the bits in the values they produce. For example, the Java implementation operates...
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Re: Period
From Linear congruential generator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As shown above, LCGs do not always use all of the bits in the values they produce. For example, the Java implementation operates...
Period
One of the random number generators in Java extract the higher-order bits of the random number in order to get a longer period.
I'm not sure if I understand how this is done. Suppose that the...