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==External links== * The simulation [http://www.vias.org/simulations/simusoft_lincong.html Linear Congruential Generator] visualizes the correlations between the pseudo-random numbers when manipulating the parameters. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20081211083300/http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~rjg7v/annotated.html Security of Random Number Generation: An Annotated Bibliography] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090108194540/http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/known-math/99/LCG Linear Congruential Generators post to sci.math] * [http://www.goldsteintech.com/art.php The "Death of Art" computer art project at Goldstein Technologies LLC, uses an LCG to generate 33,554,432 images] * P. L'Ecuyer and R. Simard, [http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/testu01.pdf "TestU01: A C Library for Empirical Testing of Random Number Generators"], May 2006, revised November 2006, ''ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software'', 33, 4, Article 22, August 2007. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20150616223328/http://yurichev.com/blog/modulo/ Article about another way of cracking LCG] {{DEFAULTSORT:Linear Congruential Generator}} [[Category:Pseudorandom number generators]] [[Category:Modular arithmetic]] [[Category:Articles with example Python (programming language) code]]
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