A385033 Consecutive states of the linear congruential pseudo-random number generator 170*s mod 30323 when started at s=1.

1, 170, 28900, 674, 23611, 11234, 29754, 24562, 21289, 10693, 28753, 6007, 20531, 3125, 15759, 10606, 13963, 8516, 22539, 10932, 8737, 29786, 30002, 6076, 1938, 26230, 1619, 2323, 711, 29901, 19229, 24369, 18802, 12425, 19963, 27857, 5302, 21973, 5681, 25757

Offset

1,2

Comments

Periodic with period 30322.

A component of the Wichmann-Hill generator (see A385031 for details).

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.

Brian A. Wichmann and I. David Hill, Algorithm AS 183: An Efficient and Portable Pseudo-Random Number Generator", J of the Royal Statistical Soc. Series C (Applied Statistics), 31, 2, (1982), 188-190.

Wikipedia, Wichmann-Hill

Index entries for sequences related to pseudo-random numbers.

Formula

a(n) = 170 * a(n-1) mod 30323.

Mathematica

NestList[Mod[170*#, 30323] &, 1, 50] (* Paolo Xausa, Jun 17 2025 *)

Crossrefs

Cf. A385031, A385032.

Sequence in context: A210784 A178499 A133328 * A098244 A250957 A114048

Adjacent sequences: A385030 A385031 A385032 * A385034 A385035 A385036

Keyword

nonn,easy

Author

Sean A. Irvine, Jun 15 2025

Status

approved