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Article #2244Re: Random number generation
From: Duke McMullan n5gax
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 1990 01:43
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 1990 01:43
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In article <20092@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> densond@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Dave Denson) writes: >I need a way to generate suitably random numbers in an assembly language >program. Hmmmmm. If you can handle 16-bit integer arithmetic efficiently .and. you can use _floating_point_ numbers for the output (range is [0,1), I recall, very uniform), then look in the March 87 issue of Byte. The article is by Wichmann and Hill, and gives (I think) a Pascal implemen- tation. Pages 127-8. If you wish, email me, and I'll send you the C source I wrote from their Pascal version. The algorithm is simple, but (according to the authors) very effective. It's performed well for me, but I've not subjected to any stiff testing. Best o' luck, d -- "...while I know many people who emphatically believe in reincarnation, I have never met or read one who could satisfactorily explain population growth." -- Spider Robinson Duke McMullan n5gax nss13429r phon505-255-4642 ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!unmvax!ariel.unm.edu!hydra.unm.edu!ee5391aa From: ee5391aa@hydra.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Random number generation Message-ID: <1990Sep15.014316.1026@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 15 Sep 90 01:43:16 GMT References: <20092@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: news@ariel.unm.edu (USENET News System) Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 27