ACORN

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ACORN is the Additive Congruential Random Number generator [1] introduced by Roy Wikramaratna in 1989.


Advantages of ACORN (from http://ACORN.wikramaratna.org/critique.html):

  • extremely light-weight code (a few lines) with reproducible results in any high-level language and on any platform;
  • theoretical convergence is mathematically proven;
  • all current empirical test suites for PRNGs are passed (i.e TestU01 current version, in 2019);
  • can be easily extended to give sequences with longer period length, and improved statistical performance over higher dimensions and with higher precision.
  • Web site

    The web site ACORN.wikramaratna.org describes ACORN in detail and provides complete references.


    References

    see also ACORN.wikramaratna.org/references.html