Re: ARexx psuedo-random number generator

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From: David Navas
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1989 00:30

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In article <19504@unix.cis.pitt.edu> ejkst@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>All the program does is calculate 10000 pseudo-random numbers, and do a
>histogram of sorts.  
Hmmm, yeah.  Well, in one of the 'miga rags is an article on random numbers --
including Arexx random numbers.  The conclusion was that the Arexx random
number generator was really poor.  [Unless staying up all night, and then
being caught in a lab fire totally threw me for a loop and I don't remember
what I'm talking about :-)]

>Eric Kennedy
>ejkst@cis.unix.pitt.edu

David Navas
c162-de@zooey

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