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2008 Aug 17
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Wichmann-Hill Random Number Generator and the Birthday Problem
...46566.12 for N=10M samples. For Marsaglia-Multicarry, Super-Duper and Mersene-Twister, M=2^32. D = 11641.53 for N = 10M samples. My testing results (see below) agree with above analysis. But for Wichmann-Hill, it wasn't. Wichmann-Hill's cycle is 6.9536e12 (refer to RNG help by ?RNG and Whichmann's correction in 1984). Thus M <= 6.9536e12. D >= 7.19052 when N=1e7 and D>= 179.763 for N=5e7. But in my tests, duplications were surprisingly not observed. It seems that Wichmann-Hill has a much larger cycle than the one documented! Anybody can solve this puzzle? Regards, Sheng...