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From: ftpam1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu (MUNTS PHILLIP A)
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Subject: Re: help on random number generator & tpu display requested
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Date: 19 Jul 90 18:07:23 GMT
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In article <23899@adm.BRL.MIL>, NELIS%NLR.nl@cunyvm.cuny.edu (W.J.M. Nelis, NLR-NOP) writes...
>Hi, I am a recent user (1 month) of TP 5.5.  The first project with TP will
>be a discrete event simulator.  I (already) have two problems, both caused
>by a lack of information in the manuals:
> 
>-1- Which pseudo random number is used by TP?  It is a multiplicative
>    linear congruential generator, but I can't determine its parameters.

     See the article in the October 1988 issue of "Communications of the ACM"
for stuff on random number generators.  Don't use the built-in version.

Philip Munts N7AHL
NRA Extremist, etc.
University of Alaska, Fairbanks