On 2012-03-27, at 20:45, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote: > > Whenever someone comes up with a random number generator he invented, I > recommend to him reading Chapter 3 (Volume 2) of TAOCP > (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming), > especially Don Knuth's comments on writing own RNGs (and his remark of > his own "super-RNG" he once invented). > > It is really worth reading. > A lot of (if not most of) Don's work is really worth reading I'd be tempted to say. Even if it gets through to mostly to some older geeks these days (which is the second part of what I'd be tempted to say ;-) -- SD!---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list send mail to majordomo@musoftware.de with the string "unsubscribe cc65" in the body(!) of the mail.Received on Tue Mar 27 20:56:19 2012
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