From: cwr AT cts DOT com (Will Rose)
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Subject: Re: An inline assembler RNG for C
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Date: 18 Feb 1999 01:35:20 GMT
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George Marsaglia (geo AT stat DOT fsu DOT edu) wrote:
: After a number of requests for random number generators
: in C, I thought it worthwhile to learn enough C to suggest
: a few methods.   A posting of the methods in sci.stat.math,
: sci.math and sci.math.num-analysis led to a number of responses
: and improvements.  The various postings may be found in those newsgroups

: or via deja news (a search on LFIB4 may be the most effective).

: But one of my most promising methods cannot be implemented
: directly in C, and the main purpose of this posting is to
: seek help on how it might be done, via inline assembler.

Probably the place to start for a PRNG in C code is Bruce Scheir's
Yarrow. (www.counterpane.com).


Will
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