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CON

• Definition:

  This is a "meta"-generator which takes a block of numbers out of the output of another generator.

• Name (as given to prng_new): "con(gen,l,i)".

  The output of "gen" is divided into blocks of length l, and the i-th is used. (0 <= i < l)

• Properties:
  • Period length: The period of "gen".
  • prng_is_congruential and prng_can_seed depend on "gen".
  • prng_can_fast_sub and prng_can_fast_con are FALSE.