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Hardware
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ENT
A pseudorandom number sequence test program. Free download of C++ source code and MS-DOS executable.
frandom
Fast RNG for the Linux kernel. A sourceforge project.
HENKOS Pseudorandom Number Generator
Presents and evaluates this generator, intended for use as a key generator for a one-time pad cipher.
Luc Devroye: Random Number Generation
Links to downloadable papers, related journals, and links to software.
Mersenne Twister: A Random Number Generator
Fast generator of fixed high period implemented in various languages. Includes a paper about the mathematical foundations.
Netlib: Random Number Generators
Source code for various random number generators in C and Fortran, including the well-known RANLIB library supporting many continuous and discrete probability distributions.
NIST: Random Number Generation and Testing
Project to develop a battery of statistical tests to detect nonrandomness in binary sequences, to produce documentation and a software implementation of these tests, and to provide guidance in the use of these tests.
Pseudo Random Number Generators
Algorithms for good random number generators with theoretical discussion and software examples.
Pseudo-random Numbers
A guide to the literature.
Random Bots
Generators for random number samples, random selection and random check number audits. Windows software for on-line purchase.
Random Number Generation, Taygeta Scientific Inc.
Information and articles on random number generation.
Random Number Generator
A small, simple open-source shareware program by Scott Donato Saccenti [Win95].
Random Number Generator Algorithms
Documentation of algorithms in the GNU Scientific Library Reference Manual.
Random Number Generators
An etext by the Computational Science Education Project.
RANDPOLY
A REDUCE package based on a port of the Maple random polynomial generator together with some support facilities for the generation of random numbers and anonymous procedures. By Francis J. Wright.
RngPack
A pseudorandom number generator package for Java. Source code free under BSD licence.
Segobit Software: Random Number Generator Pro
Windows application to generate several random numbers in a given range, subject to constraints like excluding certain digits.
The NHSE Guide to Random Number Generators
Random number generators and pointers to software at the National HPCC Software Exchange for generating and testing pseudo-random numbers on high-performance computers.
The pLab Project
A server on the theory and practice of random number generation.
Try to Find Where the Ball Is Hidden
A small test to see how well humans can generate random numbers compared to computer predictions.
UNURAN
Universal Non-Uniform RANdom number generators: a GPL library of C functions to generate nonuniform random numbers, by Josef Leydold and Wolfgang Hoermann of the University of Economics, Vienna.
WWW Virtual Library: Random numbers and Monte Carl
Links to related conferences, papers, software, webpages, people.