Re: Random number generation

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From: Eric Hughes
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 18:47

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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.  Is there a routine somewhere out there that exist to accomplish
>this.  I could create your standard MOD-type generator, but I was hoping
>for a more elegant solution.

Assuming "suitable" in for case does not mean "random," but just
"evenly distributed," check the January 1990 issue of Communications
of the ACM for the article "Two Fast Implementations of the 'Minimal
Standard' Random Number Generator."  This is a mod-type generator.

And if it suffices, then, by virtue of its simplicity, it _is_ an
elegant solution.

Eric Hughes
hughes@ocf.berkeley.edu

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