Information on calculator Random Number Generators from PPC Journal articles

[Dieter]

(11-07-2016 08:12 PM)Otto55 Wrote:  

(11-07-2016 07:33 PM)Dieter Wrote:  That's... adequate. Especially if the result can have at most 10¹⁶ or 10³⁴ different values.

Not sure I got your point - do you say that's overkill?

On the 34s nothing really is overkill. For this calculator it's just ...adequate. ;-)
Consider the internal precision: 39+ digits, just to make sure that the first 16 are OK.

Dieter