1# rand_pcg 2 3[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rust-random/rand.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rust-random/rand) 4[![Build Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/github/rust-random/rand?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/rust-random/rand) 5[![Latest version](https://img.shields.io/crates/v/rand_pcg.svg)](https://crates.io/crates/rand_pcg) 6[[![Book](https://img.shields.io/badge/book-master-yellow.svg)](https://rust-random.github.io/book/) 7[![API](https://img.shields.io/badge/api-master-yellow.svg)](https://rust-random.github.io/rand/rand_pcg) 8[![API](https://docs.rs/rand_pcg/badge.svg)](https://docs.rs/rand_pcg) 9[![Minimum rustc version](https://img.shields.io/badge/rustc-1.22+-lightgray.svg)](https://github.com/rust-random/rand#rust-version-requirements) 10 11Implements a selection of PCG random number generators. 12 13> PCG is a family of simple fast space-efficient statistically good algorithms 14> for random number generation. [Melissa O'Neill, Harvey Mudd College, 2014]. 15 16The PCG algorithms are not suitable for cryptographic uses, but perform well 17in statistical tests, use little memory and are fairly fast. 18See the [pcg-random website](http://www.pcg-random.org/). 19 20This crate depends on [rand_core](https://crates.io/crates/rand_core) and is 21part of the [Rand project](https://github.com/rust-random/rand). 22 23Links: 24 25- [API documentation (master)](https://rust-random.github.io/rand/rand_pcg) 26- [API documentation (docs.rs)](https://docs.rs/rand_pcg) 27- [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) 28 29 30## Crate Features 31 32`rand_pcg` is `no_std` compatible by default. 33 34The `serde1` feature includes implementations of `Serialize` and `Deserialize` 35for the included RNGs. 36 37## License 38 39`rand_pcg` is distributed under the terms of both the MIT license and the 40Apache License (Version 2.0). 41 42See [LICENSE-APACHE](LICENSE-APACHE) and [LICENSE-MIT](LICENSE-MIT), and 43[COPYRIGHT](COPYRIGHT) for details. 44