The Generation of Pseudo-Random Numbers on Electronic Digital Computers

Open Access

1 January 1960

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Computer Journal

Vol. 2 (4) , 181-185
https://doi.org/10.1093/comjnl/2.4.181

Abstract

Different methods of generation of sequences of pseudo-random numbers on electronic digital computers are discussed. Statistical tests of randomness which can be applied to such sequences are considered, and an account is given of pseudo-random number subroutines which have been written for the Pegasus and Mercury computers.

Keywords

ELECTRONIC DIGITAL
DIGITAL COMPUTERS
PSEUDO RANDOM NUMBERS
WRITTEN
SUBROUTINES
MERCURY