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A Brief History of Random Numbers
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tashian
on March 11, 2017
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tromp
on March 11, 2017
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A nice overview of different PRNGs and their properties and performance may be found at
http://www.pcg-random.org/
tedunangst
on March 11, 2017
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Collapsing rand() and /dev/random down to the same "good enough for everyday" category is probably a disservice.
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