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  2. Linear congruential generator - Wikipedia

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    Using a = 4 and c = 1 (bottom row) gives a cycle length of 9 with any seed in [0, 8]. A linear congruential generator ( LCG) is an algorithm that yields a sequence of pseudo-randomized numbers calculated with a discontinuous piecewise linear equation. The method represents one of the oldest and best-known pseudorandom number generator algorithms.

  3. Random seed - Wikipedia

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    Random seed. A random seed (or seed state, or just seed) is a number (or vector) used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator . For a seed to be used in a pseudorandom number generator, it does not need to be random. Because of the nature of number generating algorithms, so long as the original seed is ignored, the rest of the values that ...

  4. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    Default generator in R and the Python language starting from version 2.3. Xorshift: 2003 G. Marsaglia It is a very fast sub-type of LFSR generators. Marsaglia also suggested as an improvement the xorwow generator, in which the output of a xorshift generator is added with a Weyl sequence.

  5. Lehmer random number generator - Wikipedia

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    The Lehmer random number generator [1] (named after D. H. Lehmer ), sometimes also referred to as the Park–Miller random number generator (after Stephen K. Park and Keith W. Miller), is a type of linear congruential generator (LCG) that operates in multiplicative group of integers modulo n. The general formula is.

  6. Pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    A pseudorandom number generator ( PRNG ), also known as a deterministic random bit generator ( DRBG ), [1] is an algorithm for generating a sequence of numbers whose properties approximate the properties of sequences of random numbers. The PRNG-generated sequence is not truly random, because it is completely determined by an initial value ...

  7. Random number generation - Wikipedia

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    Random number generation is a process by which, often by means of a random number generator ( RNG ), a sequence of numbers or symbols that cannot be reasonably predicted better than by random chance is generated. This means that the particular outcome sequence will contain some patterns detectable in hindsight but impossible to foresee.

  8. Bogosort - Wikipedia

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    import random # bogosort # what happens is there is a random array that is generated by the last function # the first function checks whether the array is sorted or not # the second function repeatedly shuffles the array for as long as it remains unsorted # and that's it # happy coding => # this function checks whether or not the array is sorted def is_sorted (random_array): for i in range (1 ...

  9. Multiply-with-carry pseudorandom number generator - Wikipedia

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    Multiply-with-carry pseudorandom number generator. In computer science, multiply-with-carry (MWC) is a method invented by George Marsaglia [1] for generating sequences of random integers based on an initial set from two to many thousands of randomly chosen seed values.