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From: dschmidt@athena.mit.edu (Dan'l Schmidt)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.lang.c
Subject: How NOT to write a random number generator
Summary: SOMEONE was going to crosspost to t.b and comp.lang.c EVENTUALLY
Keywords: Look at the Followup-To: line, you dolt
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Date: 18 Jul 89 03:15:14 GMT
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Organization: the act or process of organizing or of being organized
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int egregious_random_number_generator()
{
  static int seed = 27;

  if (seed % 2)
    return (seed = seed * 3 + 1);
  else
    return (seed = seed / 2);
}

Dan (they'll never notice)