A Portable High-Quality Random Number Generator for Lattice Field Theory Simulations

Preprint

28 September 1993

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-lat/9309020

Abstract

The theory underlying a proposed random number generator for numerical simulations in elementary particle physics and statistical mechanics is discussed. The generator is based on an algorithm introduced by Marsaglia and Zaman, with an important added feature leading to demonstrably good statistical properties. It can be implemented exactly on any computer complying with the IEEE--754 standard for single precision floating point arithmetic.

Keywords

RANDOM NUMBER GENERATOR
STATISTICAL PROPERTIES
NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS
THEORY SIMULATIONS
QUALITY RANDOM
PORTABLE HIGH
ALGORITHM

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Version 1, 1993-09-28, ArXiv
Published version: Computer Physics Communications, 79 (1), 100.

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