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From: Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam@nocrew.org>
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Subject: Re: KISS 64-bit pseudo-random number generator
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Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 06:55:49 +0000
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Krishna Myneni wrote:
> This has probably been posted in c.l.f. before (by MHX or others) but
> you can find my Forth implementation of G. Marsaglia's KISS 64-bit
> PRNG at the link below.

I would like to recommend Marsaglia's newer and better xorshift family
of PRNGs, and preferably the further development by Sebastiano Vigna
called xoroshiro.  The output (with suitable parameters) is very good*,
yet the implementation is very simple.

*But not cryptography grade.