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Lattice computations for random numbers
Author(s):
Raymond
Couture;
Pierre
L'Ecuyer.
Journal:
Math. Comp.
69
(2000),
757-765.
MSC (1991):
Primary 65C10
Posted:
February 24, 1999
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Abstract:
We improve on a lattice algorithm of Tezuka for the computation of the  -distribution of a class of random number generators based on finite fields. We show how this is applied to the problem of constructing, for such generators, an output mapping yielding optimal  -distribution.
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Additional Information:
Raymond
Couture
Affiliation:
Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Email:
couture@iro.umontreal.ca
Pierre
L'Ecuyer
Affiliation:
Département d'Informatique et de Recherche Opérationnelle, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montréal, H3C 3J7, Canada
Email:
lecuyer@iro.umontreal.ca
DOI:
10.1090/S0025-5718-99-01112-6
PII:
S 0025-5718(99)01112-6
Keywords:
Random number generation,
lattice structure
Received by editor(s):
April 7, 1998
Received by editor(s) in revised form:
July 24, 1998
Posted:
February 24, 1999
Additional Notes:
This work has been supported by NSERC-Canada grants no. OGP0110050 and SMF0169893 to the second author.
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2000,
American Mathematical Society
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