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Re: Random Number algorithm

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From: MUNTS PHILLIP A
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 1990 23:24
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In article <85376@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>, yu-d@anaconda.cis.ohio-state.edu (Moonrise Programmer) writes...
> 
>	Does anybody have a random number generator I can use?  Or a reference I can look up?  I've been messing around with the FST Modula-2 v2.0 compiler but the libraries don't have a random number generator.  I made one up but I don't really like it.  
>
     See the article in the October 1988 "Communications of the ACM".

>	My, my this newsgroup is getting spicier.  Imagine Satanism and Modula-w hand in hand, I never would have thought.  :-)
>
     More appropriate for C.
>					David
>--
>    David "as in" Yu -=- DrepuS -=- The One Who Programs by Moonlight!
>            The Ohio State University - Land of the Buckeyes!
>If ya know what ya know then you know what you need.  If you know what you 
>need then go get it.    yu-d@cis.ohio-state.edu : Secretary of the OSU-ACM

Philip Munts N7AHL
NRA Extremist, etc.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks
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