A CACM by Park and Miller 6 advocated a standard for random number generators based on the Lehmer generator 5 and criticised a number of computer science textbooks for presenting bad random number generators. This paper advocates the proposed standard and presents a set of generators based on theoretically sound principles that are also useful for microcomputer implementation and classroom presentations at the introductory level.
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