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method was invented by a Franciscan friar known only as Brother Edvin sometime between 1240 and 1250.<ref name="Ekeland1996">{{cite book|author=Ivar Ekeland|title=The Broken Dice, and Other Mathematical Tales of Chance|date=15 June 1996|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-19992-4}}</ref> Supposedly, the manuscript is now lost, but [[Jorge Luis Borges]] sent Ekeland a copy that he made at the Vatican Library.
Modifying the middle square algorithm with a [[Weyl sequence]] improves period and randomness. <ref>{{cite book | title = Random Numbers and Computers | last = Kneusel | first = Ron | publisher = Springer | year = 2018 | edition = 1 | pages = 13-14 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite arXiv | last=Widynski | first=Bernard | eprint=1704.00358v5 | title=Middle Square Weyl Sequence RNG| date=April 2017}}</ref>
== The method ==
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