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my little rng


phillip1882

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so lately I've been studying randomness for no particular reason.

the problem with most prng is they use both multiplication and modulus, both expensive, and are not necessarily very good at producing randomness.

i believe i've come up with a nice, compact pseudo-random number generator. here it is in python.

v = [0]*3
seed1 = 1995714531
v[0] = 0x96696996
v[1] = seed1
v[2] = 0xb5b5adad
def rot(x,k):
  return ((x<<k)|(x>>(32-k)))&4294967295
  #the &num is unnecessary in other programing languages

def rng():
  v[0], v[2], v[1] = rot(v[2],8), rot(v[1],17), v[0]^(~v[1]&v[2])
  return v[1]

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