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From: engber@thylacine.CS.WISC.EDU (Mike Engber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: algorithm for Random
Summary: anyone know what it is?
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Date: 20 Sep 89 15:21:18 GMT
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I'm looking for the details of how Random is implemented in QuickDraw
so students of mine that are not working on Macs can generate the same
sequence of random numbers to use in testing their programs.

I'm hoping it's something like:

   function Random;
   begin
     RandSeed := (RandSeed*c1 + c2) mod c3;
     Random := RandSeed;
   end;

So I need the values for c1,c2, & c3. Anyone know them or how to figure
them out efficiently?

-ME