OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Periodic with period 259200.
Described in Numerical Recipes as a "quick and dirty" generator.
REFERENCES
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, William T. Vetterling, and Brian P. Flannery, Numerical Recipes in C (2nd ed), Cambridge University Press, 1999 (see p. 285).
LINKS
FORMULA
a(n) = (7141*a(n-1) + 54773) mod 259200.
MAPLE
a:= proc(n) option remember; `if`(n<2, n,
irem(7141*a(n-1)+54773, 259200))
end:
seq(a(n), n=1..45); # after Alois P. Heinz
MATHEMATICA
NestList[Mod[7141*# + 54773, 259200] &, 1, 50]
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
Sean A. Irvine, Jun 29 2025
STATUS
approved
