A384289 Consecutive internal states of the linear congruential pseudo-random number generator for GWBASIC 3.23 when started at 1.

1, 2745024, 2356867, 12486458, 8679701, 14802820, 7082039, 14027294, 11434089, 5380488, 9466411, 4830274, 15796733, 15840460, 12300383, 15321510, 15423953, 11736400, 10919635, 14405194, 3988453, 8904468, 807303, 4097582, 10044473, 2422296, 6167675, 914770

Offset

1,2

Comments

Periodic with period 2^24.

Also the random number generator used by Commodore AmigaBASIC.

Possibly also used by other versions of GWBASIC.

References

David I. Schneider, Handbook of BASIC (3rd ed.), Simon & Schuster, 1988 (see p. 497).

Links

Sean A. Irvine, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000

W. E. Sharp and Carter Bays, A review of portable random number generators, Computers and Geosciences, 18, 1 (1982), 79-87.

Index entries for sequences related to pseudo-random numbers.

Formula

a(n) = (214013 * a(n-1) + 2531011) mod 2^24.

Mathematica

NestList[Mod[214013*#+2531011, 2^24] &, 1, 27] (* Stefano Spezia, May 24 2025 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A096550-A096561 other pseudo-random number generators.

Cf. A384290, A384291 (similar parameters).

Sequence in context: A104848 A234370 A051384 * A384331 A251350 A238070

Adjacent sequences: A384286 A384287 A384288 * A384290 A384291 A384292

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Sean A. Irvine, May 24 2025

Status

approved