Detecting a short period in an RNG

1 · John Cook · Aug. 12, 2019, 4:16 p.m.
The last couple posts have been looking at the Cliff random number generator. I introduce the generator here and look at its fixed points. These turn out to be less of a problem in practice than in theory. Yesterday I posted about testing the generator with the DIEHARDER test suite, the successor to George Marsaglia’s […]...