Random Number Generators - Principles and Practices : A Guide for Engineers and Programmers, Paperback by Johnston, David, ISBN 1501515136, ISBN-13 9781501515132, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

Johnston, an engineer, offers a guide for practicing programmers or hardware engineers on random number generators and their noncryptographic applications and related algorithms. He explains entropy sources and extraction, cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generators, nondeterministic random number generators, statistically uniform noncrytpographic pseudorandom number generators, Gaussian or normally distributed pseudorandom number generators, testing random numbers, online random number testing, SP800-22 distinguishability tests, software tools, accessing random number generators from software, floating-point random numbers, making a uniform random number between nonpower of two bounds, generating random prime numbers, additive and probability distributions, quantifying entropy, and other topics. Th emphasizes working examples and codes that run and can be used and experimented with. Knowledge of computer programming and math from undergraduate engineering courses is suggested. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()