Re: Seeds for PRNG's


In article <1116904281.734749.35070@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
jgulisano@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>I am writing an application that needs to select about 300 people
>randomly from a population of roughly 125,000. The requirements state
>that a generator with at least 92 seed values should be used. All of
>the generators that I have found, take a single long value as its seed
>including George Marsaliga's Mother of all
>Pseudo-Random-Number-Generators.
>
>Are there generators in use that take multiple seed values? Am I
>misunderstanding what it means to provide mutiple seeds to a
>generator?
>
>Thanks...
>

what about these:
14. Zbl 0917.65005 Matsumoto, Makoto; Nishimura, Takuji
Mersenne twister: A 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudo-random number generator. (English)
ACM Trans. Model. Comput. Simul. 8, No.1, 3-30 (1998)

9. Zbl 1042.65505 L'Écuyer, Pierre
Good parameters and implementations for combined multiple recursive random number generators. (English)
Oper. Res. 47, No.1, 159-164 (1999). MSC 2000: *65C10

13. Zbl 0932.65004 Kao, Chiang; Tang, Hui-Chin
Several extensively tested multiple recursive random number generators. (English)
Comput. Math. Appl. 36, No.6, 129-136 (1998). MSC 2000: *65C10

28. Zbl 0703.65007 Eddy, William F.
Random number generators for parallel processors. (English)
J. Comput. Appl. Math. 31, No.1, 63-71 (1990). MSC 2000:

(and more ... -> search in Zentralblatt)

hth
peter
.

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