• Marsaglia is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 70 kilometres (43 mi) southeast of Turin and...
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  • George Marsaglia (March 12, 1924 – February 15, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is best known for creating the diehard...
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    The Battle of Marsaglia was a battle in the Nine Years' War, fought in Italy on 4 October 1693, between the French army of Marshal Nicolas Catinat and...
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  • Marsaglia is an Italian surname, presumably originating in the name of Marsaglia, a commune in Piedmont. People with this surname include: George Marsaglia...
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    Matteo Marsaglia (born 5 October 1985 in Rome) is a World Cup alpine ski racer from Italy and specializes in the speed events of downhill and super-G...
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    Francesca Marsaglia (born 27 January 1990) is an Italian former World Cup alpine ski racer. She competed in five World Championships and the 2014 Winter...
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    In computational number theory, Marsaglia's theorem connects modular arithmetic and analytic geometry to describe the flaws with the pseudorandom numbers...
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    class of pseudorandom number generators that were invented by George Marsaglia. They are a subset of linear-feedback shift registers (LFSRs) which allow...
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  • Bibcode:1991JCoPh..97..566S. doi:10.1016/0021-9991(91)90015-D. George, Marsaglia; Zaman, Arif (1991). "A new class of random number generators". Annals...
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    Lorenzo Marsaglia (born 16 November 1996 in Rome) is an Italian diver. Marsaglia is an athlete of the Gruppo Sportivo della Marina Militare, He won the...
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  • the quality of a random number generator. They were developed by George Marsaglia over several years and first published in 1995 on a CD-ROM of random numbers...
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  • The Marsaglia polar method is a pseudo-random number sampling method for generating a pair of independent standard normal random variables. Standard normal...
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    Italiana di L. Marsaglia after it was bought by a state – the Marsaglia part came from the name of the bank owner's son (Vincenzo Marsaglia, a talented automobile...
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    idea due to Marsaglia. Despite the slightly suboptimal acceptance rate of Marsaglia (1964) in comparison with Robert (1995), Marsaglia's method is typically...
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  • of pseudorandom number generators introduced by George Marsaglia. Starting from 1998 Marsaglia posted on various newsgroups including sci.math, comp.lang...
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  • faster than other statistically reasonable generators. In 2003, George Marsaglia introduced the family of xorshift generators, again based on a linear...
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  • used collection of tests was the Diehard Battery of Tests, introduced by Marsaglia; this was extended to the TestU01 suite by L'Ecuyer and Simard. The use...
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  • term appears to originate with George Marsaglia’s paper "Xorshift RNGs". The following C code generates what Marsaglia calls a "Weyl sequence": d += 362437;...
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  • parameters are computed from the data, even if they are known. Note 4: Marsaglia & Marsaglia provide a more accurate result for Case 0 at 85% and 99%. Alternatively...
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  • with the two-tap rules such as R(103, 250), have serious deficiencies. Marsaglia observed very poor behavior with R(24, 55) and smaller generators, and...
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    Villa Stefania, also known as Villa Stefania Bevilacqua Marsaglia, is a historic villa located in Sanremo, Italy. The villa was built in 1896 and designed...
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    value is considered to have been drawn from. It was developed by George Marsaglia and others in the 1960s. A typical value produced by the algorithm only...
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  • computer science, multiply-with-carry (MWC) is a method invented by George Marsaglia for generating sequences of random integers based on an initial set from...
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    Amadeus of Savoy at the Battle of Staffarda in 1690, and the Battle of Marsaglia in 1693, were amongst his greatest achievements, (Victor Amadeus II later...
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    ⁠-sphere (that is, the surface of the unit ⁠ n {\displaystyle n} ⁠-ball), Marsaglia (1972) gives the following algorithm. Generate an ⁠ n {\displaystyle n}...
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    simple to the "quite sophisticated". Computer-science professors George Marsaglia and Arif Zaman report that they used to call one such category of tests...
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    distributed uniformly around the circle, chosen by the random variable V. The Marsaglia polar method is a modification of the Box–Muller method which does not...
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    Ki. An alternative formulation of the probability table, proposed by Marsaglia et al. as the square histogram method, avoids the computation of y by...
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    theoretical maximum. A much tighter upper bound is proved in the same Marsaglia paper to be the sum of the absolute values of all the coefficients of...
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    France also overran most of the Duchy of Savoy after the battles of Marsaglia and Staffarde in 1693. While naval stalemate ensued after the French victory...
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