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MINSTD
Create a readable stream for a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator (LCG) based on Park and Miller.
Installation
To use as a general utility, install the CLI package globally
npm install -g @stdlib/random-streams-minstd-cliUsage
Usage: random-minstd [options]
Options:
-h, --help Print this message.
-V, --version Print the package version.
--sep sep Separator used to join streamed data. Default: '\n'.
-n, --iter iterations Number of pseudorandom numbers.
--normalized Generate pseudorandom numbers on the interval [0,1).
--seed seed Pseudorandom number generator seed.
--state filepath Path to a file containing the pseudorandom number
generator state.
--snapshot filepath Output file path for saving the pseudorandom number
generator state upon exit.
Notes
- In accordance with POSIX convention, a trailing newline is always appended to generated output prior to exit.
- Specifying a "snapshot" file path is useful when wanting to resume pseudorandom number generation due to, e.g., a downstream failure in an analysis pipeline. Before exiting, the process will store the pseudorandom number generator state in a file specified according to a provided file path. Upon loading a snapshot (state), the process will generate pseudorandom numbers starting from the loaded state, thus avoiding having to seed and replay an entire analysis.
Examples
$ random-minstd -n 10 --seed 1234References
- Park, S. K., and K. W. Miller. 1988. "Random Number Generators: Good Ones Are Hard to Find." Communications of the ACM 31 (10). New York, NY, USA: ACM: 1192–1201. doi:10.1145/63039.63042.
- Press, William H., Brian P. Flannery, Saul A. Teukolsky, and William T. Vetterling. 1992. Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing, Second Edition. Cambridge University Press.
See Also
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@stdlib/random-streams-minstd: create a readable stream for a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator (LCG) based on Park and Miller. -
@stdlib/random-base/minstd: A linear congruential pseudorandom number generator (LCG) based on Park and Miller. -
@stdlib/random-iter/minstd: create an iterator for a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator (LCG) based on Park and Miller. -
@stdlib/random-streams/minstd-shuffle: create a readable stream for a linear congruential pseudorandom number generator (LCG) whose output is shuffled. -
@stdlib/random-streams/mt19937: create a readable stream for a 32-bit Mersenne Twister pseudorandom number generator. -
@stdlib/random-streams/randi: create a readable stream for generating pseudorandom numbers having integer values. -
@stdlib/random-streams/randu: create a readable stream for generating uniformly distributed pseudorandom numbers between 0 and 1.
Notice
This package is part of stdlib, a standard library for JavaScript and Node.js, with an emphasis on numerical and scientific computing. The library provides a collection of robust, high performance libraries for mathematics, statistics, streams, utilities, and more.
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