Re: Random number generator


"djeanne" <djeanne75@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1156345158.905954.300540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi all,

I am looking for a way to generate random numbers with good quality.
The system the generator should be working on is an MVS system.

Does anyone have a clue of how to do it ?

Define "good quality". There are RNGs that are cryptographically secure, although lead to poor stastistical behaviour for simulations, and vice versa (good for statistical simulations, but cryptographically poor).

- Oliver

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