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   Lars Brinkhoff to Krishna Myneni   
   Re: KISS 64-bit pseudo-random number gen   
   09 Sep 24 06:55:49   
   
   From: lars.spam@nocrew.org   
      
   Krishna Myneni wrote:   
   > This has probably been posted in c.l.f. before (by MHX or others) but   
   > you can find my Forth implementation of G. Marsaglia's KISS 64-bit   
   > PRNG at the link below.   
      
   I would like to recommend Marsaglia's newer and better xorshift family   
   of PRNGs, and preferably the further development by Sebastiano Vigna   
   called xoroshiro.  The output (with suitable parameters) is very good*,   
   yet the implementation is very simple.   
      
   *But not cryptography grade.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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