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/* rng/randu.c
 * 
 * Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2007 James Theiler, Brian Gough
 * 
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
 * your option) any later version.
 * 
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
 * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
 */

#include <config.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gsl/gsl_rng.h>

/* This is a reincarnation of the infamously bad RANDU generator.
   The sequence is,

   x_{n+1} = (a x_n) mod m

   with a = 65539 and m = 2^31 = 2147483648. The seed specifies
   the initial value, x_1.

   The theoretical value of x_{10001} is 1623524161.

   The period of this generator is 2^29.

   Note: Knuth describes this generator as "really horrible". 

   From: Park and Miller, "Random Number Generators: Good ones are
   hard to find" Communications of the ACM, October 1988, Volume 31,
   No 10, pages 1192-1201. */

static inline unsigned long int randu_get (void *vstate);
static double randu_get_double (void *vstate);
static void randu_set (void *state, unsigned long int s);

static const long int a = 65539;
/* static const unsigned long int m = 2147483648UL; */

typedef struct
  {
    unsigned long int x;
  }
randu_state_t;

static inline unsigned long int
randu_get (void *vstate)
{
  randu_state_t *state = (randu_state_t *) vstate;

  /* The following line relies on unsigned 32-bit arithmetic */

  state->x = (a * state->x) & 0x7fffffffUL;

  return state->x;
}

static double
randu_get_double (void *vstate)
{
  return randu_get (vstate) / 2147483648.0 ;
}

static void
randu_set (void *vstate, unsigned long int s)
{
  randu_state_t *state = (randu_state_t *) vstate;

  if (s == 0)
    s = 1;      /* default seed is 1 */

  state->x = s;

  return;
}

static const gsl_rng_type randu_type =
{"randu",                       /* name */
 0x7fffffffUL,                  /* RAND_MAX */
 1,                             /* RAND_MIN */
 sizeof (randu_state_t),
 &randu_set,
 &randu_get,
 &randu_get_double};

const gsl_rng_type *gsl_rng_randu = &randu_type;