Code for experimenting with finite fields and pseudorandom number generation using them. ("Corps fini" is French for "finite field".)

The code here is designed for learning and exploration.

If you're looking for a high-quality, efficient pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), this is definitely not the place to look. If you're looking for a PRNG for use in simulations, statistics, or numerical estimation, I'd suggest using one of WELL generators developed by Panneton, L'Ecuyer, and Matsumoto (Pierre L'Ecuyer's website is a good starting point), or an xoshiro generator from Sebastiano Vigna. There are other recent generators worth considering, and a Mersenne Twister should be OK if it's initialized properly (as it probably is in most popular libraries). If you're looking for a cryptographic pseudorandom number generator, good advice should be easy to find elsewhere.

This software and text is copyright 2021 by Marshall Abrams, and is distributed under the Gnu Lesser General Public License version 3.0 as specified in the file LICENSE, except where noted, or where code has been included that was released under a different license.