Deep Data Mining Blog: Why Bother to Calculate Mod(x, 30269)?

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I was trying to implement Wichmann-Hill random number generator in Oracle. The calculation of mod(x, 30269) is part of the algorithm. The algorithm is described in Algorithm AS 183: An Efficient and Portable Pseudo-Random Number Generator.

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