On the Initial Seed of the Random Number Generators

  • Kim, Tae-Soo (Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Young-Hae (Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang University)
  • Published : 2001.10.01

Abstract

A good arithmetic random number generator should possess full period, uniformity and independence, etc. To obtain the excellent random number generator, many researchers have found good parameters. Also an initial seed is the important factor in random number generator. But, there is no theoretical guideline for using the initial seeds. Therefore, random number generator is usually used with the arbitrary initial seed. Through the empirical tests, we show that the choice of the initial values for the seed is important to generate good random numbers.

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