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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Random numbers
Message-ID: <3464@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 24 Jul 90 06:46:04 GMT
References: <483@keele.keele.ac.uk>
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In article <483@keele.keele.ac.uk>, cca04@.uk.ac.keele (P.J. Mitchell) writes:
> How do I generate this accuracy from the 15 bit C rand routine that
> the Sequent man pages say is used?

Don't.

Check "man random" to see if you have the BSD random number generator
and "man drand48" to see if you have the AT&T random number generator.
Check books like "Numerical Recipes" for random number generators and
look in back issues of journals like "Applied Statistics".
Look in Knuth Vol 2 ("Numerical Recipes" provides Fortran code for at
least one of the methods he describes, one of the better ones).

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