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Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 19:11:19 +0100
From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
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Subject: Re: [9front] Quick PRNG question
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Thanks, both of you.  Sorry for list noise, not sure how I sent it to the wrong address.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Julius Schmidt wrote:
> Look up xorshift and its variants
> 
> It's about a million times simpler than Mersenne twister and some of 
> the variants are much better at passing statistical tests.
> 
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2019, Ethan Gardener wrote:
> 
> > Hi Aiju! I remember some time back you laughed at Mersenne twister PRNG, citing another PRNG as simpler and better.  What was the better PRNG?
> >
>