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-cli

Usage

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 1234

References

• 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

• @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.

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