Editing Linear congruential generator (section)

==History==
The Lehmer generator was published in 1951<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Lehmer|first=Derrick H.|date=1951|title=Mathematical methods in large-scale computing units|journal=Proceedings of 2nd Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery|pages=141–146}}</ref> and the Linear congruential generator was published in 1958 by W. E. Thomson and A. Rotenberg.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Thomson|first=W. E.|date=1958|title=A Modified Congruence Method of Generating Pseudo-random Numbers|journal=The Computer Journal|volume=1|issue=2|pages=83|doi=10.1093/comjnl/1.2.83|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rotenberg|first=A.|date=1960|title=A New Pseudo-Random Number Generator|journal=Journal of the ACM|volume=7|issue=1|pages=75–77|doi=10.1145/321008.321019|s2cid=16770825|doi-access=free}}</ref>