Title :
Random number generator for 16-bit machines
Author :
Komo, John J. ; Reid, William J., III
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Clemson Univ., SC, USA
Abstract :
A general 16-bit multiplicative congruential generator is developed and tested using the chi-square goodness-of-fit test and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The generator is simple and is shown to have good randomness properties for the generation of uniform random numbers. It is also shown that this generator is portable in the sense that it does not overflow the 16-bit computer or require a double-precision mod statement
Keywords :
random number generation; statistical analysis; 16 bits; 16-bit multiplicative congruential generator; Kolmogorov-Smirnov test; chi-square goodness-of-fit test; random number generator; uniform random numbers; Arithmetic; Distributed computing; Distributed power generation; Portable computers; Random number generation; Registers; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
System Theory, 1989. Proceedings., Twenty-First Southeastern Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tallahassee, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-1933-3
DOI :
10.1109/SSST.1989.72438
