16.13 References and Further Reading
The subject of random number generation and testing is reviewed
extensively in Knuth's Seminumerical Algorithms.
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Donald E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming: Seminumerical
Algorithms (Vol 2, 3rd Ed, 1997), Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0201896842.
Further information is available in the review paper written by Pierre
L'Ecuyer,
On the World Wide Web, see the pLab home page
(http://random.mat.sbg.ac.at/) for a lot of information on the
state-of-the-art in random number generation, and for numerous links to
various "random" WWW sites.
The source code for the DIEHARD random number generator tests is also
available online.
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