[Issue 10550] Xorshift32 and Xorshift160 do not generate uniformly-distributed random numbers

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--- Comment #5 from bearophile_hugs at eml.cc 2013-07-08 01:46:42 PDT ---
Maybe this bug should have a "major" importance. And maybe a warning note in
site ddocs should be added in the meantime.

These tests can help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests


>Unfortunately George Marsaglia has died, so we can't ask him about typos in his
papers.<

Some people should live longer. Probably some of his collaborators or people
that have used his generators have some errata list or some suggestions to
help.

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