The standard library random package implements a decent subtract-with-borrow (SWB) pseudo-random number generator as described in Marsaglia and Zaman, "A New Class of Random Number Generators, Ann. Applied Prob. 1 (3), 1991, p 462-480.
The SWB generator is a 31-bit generator with lags 48 and 8. It has period (21487 − 2247)/105 or about 10445. In general, these generators are excellent. However, they act locally like a lagged Fibonacci generator and thus have troubles with the birthday test. Thus, we combine this SWB generator with the linear congruential generator (48271*a)mod (231−1).
The random package implements the Random API.
The random package source code is in src/lib/src/random.pkg.
See also: rand.
The above information is manually maintained and may contain errors.
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