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<< RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS >>

A popular random number generator called RANDU was distributed by IBM in 1960 with the algorithm:

xn+1 = ( 69069 xn ) mod 231-1

and then Park and Miller proposed a minimal standard:

xn+1 = ( 16807 xn ) mod 231-1


The computer implementations of the algorithm (Fortran 90): randu.f90 | minimal.f90