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From: Soenke Behrens
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 20:39

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gtd543a@prism.gatech.EDU (death) writes:

>Does anyone know of a random number generator, publicly available, or
>a good algorithm for some?  It will be implemented in C.

random() (possibly in connection with mrandom()) and drand48() are publicly
available. I do not have exact figures on their randomness, though.

>25861 Georgia Tech Station        | "Only sheep need a leader"

Baahhh!

Soenke
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