From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2004-05-21T23:17:16+09:00
Subject: ISAAC Random Number Generator

Iowa includes a class, Iowa::ISAAC, which is a pure ruby implementation of 
the ISAAC random number generator.

Here's the page that describes the algorithm:

http://burtleburtle.net/bob/rand/isaac.html

Basically, ISAAC is a very good random number generator, with no cycles 
shorter than 2^40, with a very, very long expected cycle, and with an 
unbiased and uniform distribution.

Is there any interest in this existing in a package of its own?  If so, I 
could repackage it and release it seperately.


Kirk Haines