OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Periodic with period 2^31-2.
Presented by Carta as an alternative to Park and Miller's Minimal Standard Generator.
LINKS
Sean A. Irvine, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000
David G. Carta, Two Fast Implementations of the "Minimal Standard" Random Number Generator, C ACM, 33, 1 (1990), 87-88.
FORMULA
a(n) = 69621 * a(n-1) mod (2^31-1).
MATHEMATICA
NestList[Mod[69621*#, 2^31 - 1] &, 1, 50] (* Paolo Xausa, Jun 04 2025 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Sean A. Irvine, May 27 2025
STATUS
approved
