When working on some code, I came across a random number generation algorithm (a pseudorandom number generator to be exact, since the numbers aren’t truly random but only designed to “look” like it to the casual observer) called ISAAC. The name stands for “Indirection, Shift, Accumulate, Add, and Count,” which is essentially what it does [...]
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Performance of Math::Random::ISAAC
Posted in Computer Science, Software Engineering, tagged Algorithms, Foreign Function Interfaces, ISAAC, Perl, Random Numbers on 4 June 2009 | 2 Comments »
