Abstract
A fundamental characteristic of pseudorandom number generators is their uniformity. often in simulation packages the user has to accept the generators provided and has no control on their quality. GPSS-FORTRAN however is a package of FORTRAN-subroutines in which the generators are clearly presented to the user. In this paper we test the 30 generators available, warn the users not to use some of the generators for prespecified sample sizes and create a table containing the best available generators for the same sample sizes.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
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