Use of program generators to improve student productivity in a small-computer lab

In 1985, G. Marsaglia proposed the m-tuple test, a runs test on bits, as a test of nonrandomness of a sequence of pseudorandom integers. We try this test on the outputs from a large set of pseudorandom number generators and discuss the behavior of the ...

This is a survey of unconditional pseudorandom generators (PRGs). A PRG uses a short, truly random seed to generate a long, "pseudorandom" sequence of bits. To be more specific, for each restricted model of computation (e.g., bounded-depth circuits or ...

Besides speed and period length, the quality of uniform random number generators (RNGs) is usually assessed by measuring the uniformity of their point sets, formed by taking vectors of successive output values over their entire period length. For F"2-...