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==Notes== {{Reflist|30em|refs= <ref name=KnuthV2>{{TAOCP|volume=2|edition=3|pages=10–26}}</ref> <ref name=Park88>{{cite journal |first1=Stephen K. |last1=Park |first2=Keith W. |last2=Miller |title=Random Number Generators: Good Ones Are Hard To Find |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |date=October 1988 |volume=31 |issue=10 |pages=1192–1201 |doi=10.1145/63039.63042 |s2cid=207575300 |url=http://www.firstpr.com.au/dsp/rand31/p1192-park.pdf |quote=In a sense it is unfortunate that this test for full period is so trivial as it falsely encourages non-specialists to build their own generators. }}</ref> <ref name=Hörmann92>{{cite journal |title=A Portable Uniform Random Number Generator Well Suited for the Rejection Method |first1=Wolfgang |last1=Hörmann |first2=Gerhard |last2=Derflinger |journal=ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software |volume=19 |issue=4 |pages=489–495 |date=1993 |doi=10.1145/168173.168414 |citeseerx=10.1.1.52.3811 |s2cid=15238956 |url=https://epub.wu.ac.at/1288/1/document.pdf |quote=a multiplier about as small as {{sqrt|''m''}}, produces random numbers with a bad one-dimensional distribution. }}</ref> <ref name=LEcuyer99>{{cite journal |first=Pierre |last=L'Ecuyer |title=Tables of Linear Congruential Generators of Different Sizes and Good Lattice Structure |journal=[[Mathematics of Computation]] |volume=68 |issue=225 |pages=249–260 |date=January 1999 |url=https://www.ams.org/journals/mcom/1999-68-225/S0025-5718-99-00996-5/S0025-5718-99-00996-5.pdf |doi=10.1090/S0025-5718-99-00996-5 |bibcode=1999MaCom..68..249L |citeseerx=10.1.1.34.1024}} Be sure to read the [https://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/latrules99Errata.pdf Errata] as well. </ref> }}
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