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New Implementations of the Spectral Test

Hopkins, Tim (1997) New Implementations of the Spectral Test. Technical report. University of Kent (KAR id:21475)

Abstract

We present three versions of the revised spectral test for the analysis of liner congruential random number generators. One is a Fortran 90 version of the code presented in ~citeHopkins83 which extends the range of integer arithmetic operations by performing the arithmetic using floating-point numbers. The range of modulus values which may be analyzed is determined by the length of the mantissa. The other two implementations use the multiple precision arithmetic facilities provided by the Fortran 90 package, mpfun~citeBailey and the Unix program emphbc (a version of this program is freely available from GNU). Both these allow arbitrary values of the modulus to be analyzed notwithstanding the underlying integer and floating-point hardware.

Item Type: Reports and Papers (Technical report)
Uncontrolled keywords: Fortran 90, mpfun, bc, multiple precision arithmetic
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA 76 Software, computer programming,
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Computing
Depositing User: Mark Wheadon
Date Deposited: 30 Jul 2009 16:30 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:59 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/21475 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Hopkins, Tim.

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