A384297 Consecutive internal states of the linear congruential pseudo-random number generator for Microsoft QBASIC when started at 1.

1, 12640960, 8124035, 4294458, 3961109, 14212996, 790583, 4786718, 4094057, 13179272, 9990699, 13415490, 7932413, 570572, 4960351, 10275238, 9132497, 9049424, 14589651, 14601802, 1367013, 4120340, 807303, 11634222, 13190201, 14415384, 4594811, 1111378

Offset

1,2

Comments

Periodic with period 2^24.

Also used by Visual BASIC (version 6 and earlier).

Links

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

Noesis Pty Ltd, VBA's Pseudo Random Number Generator, 2001.

WikiBooks, QBasic/Appendix.

Index entries for sequences related to pseudo-random numbers.

Formula

a(n) = (16598013 * a(n-1) + 12820163) mod 2^24.

Mathematica

NestList[Mod[16598013*# + 12820163, 2^24] &, 1, 50] (* Paolo Xausa, May 27 2025 *)

Crossrefs

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

Sequence in context: A147749 A175753 A251472 * A256734 A237034 A210182

Adjacent sequences: A384294 A384295 A384296 * A384298 A384299 A384300

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Sean A. Irvine, May 24 2025

Status

approved