Re: Float (Real) Hash Functions / Random Number Generators

In article
<10538243.1139478459804.JavaMail.jakarta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Tom Holden <cfp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Any chance you could send me a link for this?

My searches on the IBM site didn't turn anything up.

I went to www.ibm.com, typed "random number" into the search field, and
number five in the list is titled

"Fast pseudorandom-number generators with modulus 2**k or (2**k)-1
using fused multiply-add", URL:

http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/rd/461/agarwal.html

A quote: "The Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) parallel benchmarks
use a linear congruential generator with modulus 2^46. Our result is
about 50 times faster than the generic implementation given in the
benchmarks."
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