... Library¹

Work performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-48.

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... period²

D.E. Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 2, page 16-21, (1998).

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... portable³

The byte order used is little endian, that is, least significant byte first. This is a property of the implementation, and not the RNG library specification.

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... values ⁴

Since both the RNG and the SPRNG libraries hash the seed, the seeding was actually done by circumventing the normal seeding routines.

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