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Old 01-03-2007, 07:43 AM
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Default Re: Which is the best packed/unpacked so far?

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Does anybody know of a RNG which will let me just take the bottom N bits and still give a good distribution, and/or a faster method by which I could fold the keys?

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George Marsaglia, who devoted his professional (academic) life to RNGs, posted the following articles to the usenet sci.math group a few years ago. I think you might find them of interest:

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...66dd138f?hl=en

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.m...f4d574a5?hl=en

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Thanks, I'll give them a try.

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