[Haskell-beginners] randmomR produces only even values

Henk-Jan van Tuyl hjgtuyl at chello.nl
Sun Nov 1 15:12:46 UTC 2015


On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 03:24:07 +0100, Andrew Bernard  
<andrew.bernard at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to the package documentation for System.Random:
>
> This implementation uses the Portable Combined Generator of L'Ecuyer  
> [System.Random] for 32-bit computers, transliterated by Lennart  
> Augustsson.
>
> The paper in question is given as:
>
> Pierre L'Ecuyer, /Efficient and portable combined random number  
> generators/, Comm ACM, 31(6), Jun 1988, pp742-749
>
> Does anybody have a copy of this paper?

The first result of a search with startpage was:
   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/myftp/papers/cacm88.pdf

Regards,
Henk-Jan van Tuyl


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