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Sequences of Pseudorandom Numbers with Arbitrarily Large Periods
P. S. Joag
Department of Physics, University of Poona,
Ganeshkhind, Pune-411007, India
Abstract
We show that the restriction of the Bernoulli shift map to the set of rationals between 0 and 1 can generate sequences of uniformly distributed pseudorandom numbers whose periods exceed any given
, however large. Here
is an integer.