F90_RANDOM
FORTRAN90's Random Number Generator (RNG) Routines

F90_RANDOM is a directory of FORTRAN90 programs which illustrate the use of Fortran's random number generator (RNG) routines.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

F90_RANDOM is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version.

Related Data and Programs:

ASA183, a FORTRAN90 library which implements a random number generator (RNG), by Wichman and Hill. This is a FORTRAN90 version of Applied Statistics Algorithm 183.

NORMAL, a FORTRAN90 library which computes elements of a sequence of pseudorandom normally distributed values.

RANDLC, a FORTRAN90 library which generates a sequence of pseudorandom numbers, used by the NAS Benchmark programs.

RNGLIB, a FORTRAN90 library which implements a random number generator (RNG) with splitting facilities, allowing multiple independent streams to be computed, by L'Ecuyer and Cote.

UNIFORM, a FORTRAN90 library which computes elements of a uniform pseudorandom sequence.

Reference:

1. Jeanne Adams, Walter Brainerd, Jeanne Martin, Brian Smith, Jerrold Wagener,
   Fortran90 Handbook,
   Complete ANSI/ISO Reference,
   McGraw Hill, 1992,
   ISBN: 0-07-000406-4,
   LC: QA76.73.F28.F67.
2. Ian Chivers, Jane Sleightholme,
   Introduction to Programming with Fortran,
   Springer, 2005,
   ISBN: 1846280532,
   LC: QA76.73.F29.C48.
3. Miles Ellis, Ivor Philips, Thomas Lahey,
   Fortran90 Programming,
   Addison-Wesley, 1994,
   ISBN: 0-201-54446-6,
   LC: QA76.73.F25E435.
4. Michael Metcalf,
   Fortran95/2003 Explained,
   Oxford, 2004,
   ISBN: 0198526938,
   LC: QA76.73.F235.M48.
5. Larry Nyhoff, Sanford Leestma,
   Introduction to Fortran90 for Engineers and Scientists,
   Prentice-Hall, 1996,
   ISBN: 0135052157,
   LC: QA76.73.F25N925.
6. James Ortega,
   An Introduction to FORTRAN90 for Scientific Computing,
   Oxford, 1994,
   ISBN: 0-19-517213-2,
   LC: QA76.73.O75.

Examples and Tests:

RANDOM_TEST tests the random number routines.

• random_test.f90, the source code;
• random_test.txt, the output file;

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