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<li>extremely light-weight code (a few lines) with reproducible results in any high-level language and on any platform; </li> | <li>extremely light-weight code (a few lines) with reproducible results in any high-level language and on any platform; </li> | ||
<li>theoretical convergence is mathematically proven; </li> | <li>theoretical convergence is mathematically proven; </li> | ||
<li>all current empirical test suites for PRNGs are passed; </li> | <li>all current empirical test suites for PRNGs are passed (i.e TestU01 current version, in 2019); </li> | ||
<li>can be easily extended to give sequences with longer period length, and improved statistical performance over higher dimensions and with higher precision.</li> | <li>can be easily extended to give sequences with longer period length, and improved statistical performance over higher dimensions and with higher precision.</li> | ||
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==References== | ==References== | ||
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See [http://ACORN.wikramaratna.org ACORN.wikramaratna.org/references.html] | |||
[[Category: Random numbers]] | [[Category: Random numbers]] | ||
Revision as of 09:48, 5 July 2019
ACORN is the Additive Congruential Random Number generator [1] introduced by Roy Wikramaratna in 1989.
Advantages of ACORN (from http://ACORN.wikramaratna.org/critique.html):
Web site
The web site ACORN.wikramaratna.org describes ACORN in detail and provides complete references.