Note on Marsaglia\'s Xorshift Random Number Generators
Richard P. Brent
Journal of Statistical Software · 2004
doi:10.18637/jss.v011.i05 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Marsaglia (2003) has described a class of Xorshift random number generators (RNGs) with periods 2n - 1 for n = 32, 64, etc. We show that the sequences generated by these RNGs are identical to the sequences generated by certain linear feedback shift register (LFSR) generators using
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