From schutz@wehi.edu.au  Sun Mar  3 13:54:40 2002
From: schutz@wehi.edu.au (Frederic Schutz)
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 00:54:40 +1100
Subject: [Rd] Weakness in Knuth-TAOCP RNG (fwd) (PR#1336)
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References: <200203030317.EAA20430@pubhealth.ku.dk> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0203030923530.27666-100000@auk.stats>
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>It's not that simple.  This is an new generator, incompatible with
>the old one.
>
>I will have to add this as a separate generator, since we really, really
>can't re-define random number generators and so make work unreproducible.

I thought about that, but I do not know the source code well enough to add
a new generator. I let you do it the way you want.

Frdric
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[Rd] Weakness in Knuth-TAOCP RNG (fwd) (PR#1336)
Frederic Schutz