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The following table lists the parameters of LCGs in common use, including built-in rand() functions in runtime libraries of various compilers. This table is to show popularity, not examples to emulate; many of these parameters are poor. Tables of good parameters are available. [10] [2]
Widely used in many programs, e.g. it is used in Excel 2003 and later versions for the Excel function RAND [8] and it was the default generator in the language Python up to version 2.2. [9] Rule 30: 1983 S. Wolfram [10] Based on cellular automata. Inversive congruential generator (ICG) 1986 J. Eichenauer and J. Lehn [11] Blum Blum Shub: 1986
rand: generates a pseudo-random number between 0 and RAND_MAX, inclusive. srand: initializes a pseudo-random number generator: arc4random: generates a pseudo-random number between 0 and UINT32_MAX, usually using a better algorithm than rand: arc4random_uniform: generates a pseudo-random number between 0 and a maximum value. arc4random_buf
The Rand index [1] or Rand measure (named after William M. Rand) in statistics, and in particular in data clustering, is a measure of the similarity between two data clusterings. A form of the Rand index may be defined that is adjusted for the chance grouping of elements, this is the adjusted Rand index .
RDRAND (for "read random") is an instruction for returning random numbers from an Intel on-chip hardware random number generator which has been seeded by an on-chip entropy source. [1]
Rngtest testing /dev/urandom pool, same result can be observed with /dev/random pool. The Linux kernel provides the separate device files /dev/random and /dev/urandom.Since kernel version 5.6 of 2020, /dev/random only blocks when the CSPRNG hasn't initialized.
The Mersenne Twister is a general-purpose pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) developed in 1997 by Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞) and Takuji Nishimura (西村 拓士). [1] [2] Its name derives from the choice of a Mersenne prime as its period length.
The C standard library provides the ability to generate pseudorandom numbers via the function rand. However, the algorithm is delegated entirely to the library vendor. C++ inherited this functionality with no changes, but C++11 provides a new method for generating pseudorandom numbers.