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Again, random numbers fall mainly in the planes: xorshift128+ generators

Hiroshi Haramoto, Makoto Matsumoto

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Xorshift128+ are pseudo random number generators with eight sets of parameters. Some of them are standard generators in many platforms, such as JavaScript V8 Engine. We show that in the 3D plots generated by this method, points concentrate on planes, ruining the randomness.

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  1. Xorshift Generators 1 comment

    • Ah yes, Xorshift, the RANDU [1] of the 21st century [2]. There is no real use case for better non-CS generators, as explained by adrian_b back in 2021 [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANDU [2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.10020 [3]…

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