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From: shahn@hstbme.mit.edu (Samuel Hahn)
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Subject: Re: Random number Generator wanted.
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Date: 6 Jul 90 19:34:30 GMT
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This may be a bit obvious but why don't you just generate a long number one 
character at a time? For instance to go between 0 and 999999999999 just pick
each digit from random() mod 9? This won't be very fast but it should work
if you are willing to accept the limitations of the built in random number
generator...

It also gets a bit trickier if you want numbers between 0 and say 945832427,
but it could still be done with a bunch of conditional statements.

Sam Hahn