Information on calculator Random Number Generators from PPC Journal articles

[Paul Dale]

(11-15-2016 07:12 AM)Dieter Wrote:  Edit: I did a short test and found very high Chi² values. Looking at the number distribution there were several cases where the range 0,2...0,3 had extremely low counts while 0,9+ was very high.

You didn't include the \( frac ( 2^{20} x_n ) \) part. The leading bits don't pass the randomness tests but going down the mantissa a bit does.

- Pauli