Well equidistributed long-period linear

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The Well Equidistributed Long-period Linear (WELL) is a family of pseudorandom number generators developed in 2006 by François Panneton, Pierre L'Ecuyer, and Makoto Matsumoto (松本 眞).^[1] It is a form of linear-feedback shift register optimized for software implementation on a 32-bit machine.