[Numpy-discussion] additions to random: innovative names vs. algorithm specification

[Sturla Molden]

> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 16:03, Alan G Isaac <alan.isaac at gmail.com>

> New sampling algorithms aren't invented *all* that often.

No, but it seems George Marsaglia posted a new prng called KISS4691 to
sci.math last saturday :)

KISS4691 has an immense period (larger than 10**45000), and Marsaglia
claims it can produce 138 million pseudorandom ints per second. That puts
it far ahead of MT19937both in terms of period and speed.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/dc9ad178113a30fd