ALGORITHM-780 - EXPONENTIAL PSEUDORANDOM DISTRIBUTION

Authors
HAMILTON KG
Citation
Kg. Hamilton, ALGORITHM-780 - EXPONENTIAL PSEUDORANDOM DISTRIBUTION, ACM transactions on mathematical software, 24(1), 1998, pp. 102-106
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Software Graphycs Programming",Mathematics,"Computer Science Software Graphycs Programming",Mathematics
Journal title
ACM transactions on mathematical software → ACNP
ISSN journal
00983500
Volume
24
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
102 - 106
Database
ISI
SICI code
0098-3500(1998)24:1<102:A-EPD>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
An algorithm is presented for the calculation of exponentially distrib uted random numbers. It is based on mathematics that was published by Ahrens and Dieter, but some errors have been corrected.