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From: dmurdoch@watstat.uwaterloo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: help on random number generator & tpu display requested
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Date: Sat, 21 Jul 90 11:52:03 GMT
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In article <1990Jul19.180723.8770@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ftpam1@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes:
>In article <23899@adm.BRL.MIL>, NELIS%NLR.nl@cunyvm.cuny.edu (W.J.M. Nelis, NLR-NOP) writes...
>>-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.

What problems does the built-in one have?

Duncan Murdoch