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Random numbers and computers
Kneusel R., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2018. 260 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319776-96-5)
Date Reviewed: Feb 13 2019

[CR has previously published a review of this book (see Review CR146350). The author of the book has written a rebuttal to the review.]

AUTHOR’S REBUTTAL

There is an error in the review.

The reviewer states:

Also missing: the decimal expansions of irrational numbers (which are non-terminating and non-repeating) do not have a cycle from which they can be proposed as random number generators provided we can generate a fairly long sequence of the expansions quickly and easily in the computer. The number pi has already been tried; others are also in the running.

However, Section 7.2 covers this explicitly for both transcendental numbers like pi and the expansions of irrational numbers.

Reviewer:  Ron Kneusel Review #: CR146432 (1905-0160)
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