Ask HN: Have you read "The Art of Computer Programming"?

Re:Ask HN: Have you read "The Art of Computer Programming"? by wglb on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @03:03PM (#8006118)

I am curious about your random number generation, Knuth's book is dangerously behind the times.

Can you be specific about how it is behind the times?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you read "The Art of Computer Programming"? by PaulHoule on Tuesday July 08, 2014 @05:45PM (#8006889)

I wrote this when I was in grad school:

http://www.honeylocust.com/RngPack/

even in the 1990s there were much better random number generators than anything that Knuth or the Numerical Recipes people talked about (and I'm saying that as somebody who was lucky enough to take a class in Numerical Methods from Saul Teukolsky.)

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