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

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10550



--- Comment #10 from Masahiro Nakagawa <repeatedly at gmail.com> 2013-07-08 09:26:03 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #9)
> ...
> In summary, I think we can proceed as follows:
> 
>    * confirm with experts in the field the typos in the paper
> 
>    * generate new checking sequences with corrected versions of the C code
> 
>    * correct the D code and unittests accordingly
> 
> I am actually inclined to jump ahead with getting the patches to Phobos done,
> because I'm pretty confident my analysis here is correct :-)

I rechecked the paper and I agree with you (y^=, a < c and 160's >>)
So I think we can fix this paper derived bugs.
Could you send the pull request?
After passed auto tester, I will merge it.

On the other hand, confirm the typos is good for future generations.

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