SOME GOOD MULTIPLIERS FOR RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR FOR 16-BIT MICROCOMPUTERS

Authors
CHANG PL HWANG SN KAO C
Citation
Pl. Chang et al., SOME GOOD MULTIPLIERS FOR RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR FOR 16-BIT MICROCOMPUTERS, Computers & operations research, 21(2), 1994, pp. 199-204
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Operatione Research & Management Science","Computer Applications & Cybernetics","Operatione Research & Management Science
Journal title
Computers & operations research → ACNP
ISSN journal
03050548
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
199 - 204
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-0548(1994)21:2<199:SGMFRN>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
In searching for statistically sound multipliers for the prime modulus multiplicative congruential random number generator for 16-bit microc omputers, an exhaustive analysis is conducted over the 10,912 primitiv e roots of the modulus 2(15)-19=32,749. The result shows that there ar e only 227 good multipliers among the 10,912 candidate multipliers. He re a multiplier is said to be good if its corresponding generator has good statistical properties and computational efficiency.